Soviet State and Society Between Revolutions, 1918 1929

ISBN-13: 9780521362153 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 300 str.

Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Opis

This is the first book to analyze the relationship between the Soviet state and society from the October Revolution of 1917 to the revolution under Stalin of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Professor Lewis Siegelbaum explores the evolution of the ruling Communist Party and its New Economic Policy and the changing fortunes of industrial workers, peasants, and the scientific and cultural intelligentsia. He demonstrates how these different actors sought to appropriate the promise of the 1917 Revolution for their own purposes, highlights the compromises they made, and explains why in the late 1920s these compromises started to break down.

Recenzje

"...a well-written and scrupulous synthesis of the abundant new scholarship on the 1920s....Siegelbaum recaptures the sense of directionless and uncertainty prevalent during the 1920s....an exacting interpretive guide." Stephen Kotkin, Journal of Modern History

Spis treści

Preface and acknowledgements; Russian terms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Bequeathals of the Revolution, 1918–20; 2. The crisis of 1920–21; 3. The perils of retreat and recovery; 4. Living with NEP; 5. Dangers and opportunities; Epilogue and conclusions; Bibliography.