The Soviet Union

ISBN-13: 9780815398271 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 562 str.

Peter Waldron

Opis

The Soviet Union was one of the most significant historical phenomena of the twentieth century

Spis treści

Contents: Series preface; Introduction. Part I The Bolshevik Seizure and Consolidation of Power: Lenin's conception of revolution as civil war, Israel Getzler; The Red Army and mass mobilisation during the Russian civil war, 1918-1920, Orlando Figes; Bolshevik razverstka and war communism, Lars T. Lih; The Bolsheviks and the peasantry: the land question during the first 8 months of Soviet rule, John Channon; Urbanisation and deurbanisation in the Russian revolution and civil war, Diane Koenker. Part II Stalin and Stalinism: New perspectives on Stalinism, Sheila Fitzpatrick; Victims of the Soviet penal system in the prewar years: a first approach on the basis of archival evidence, J.Arch Getty, Gábor Ritterspoorn and Victor N. Zemskov; 'Bab'i bunty' and peasant women's protest during collectivisation, Lynne Viola; How the mice buried the cat: scenes from the great purges of 1937 in the Russian provinces, Sheila Fitzpatrick; 'Us against them':Social identity in Soviet Russia, 1934-41, Sarah Davies. Part III War and Post-War Recovery: The Soviet response to surprise attack: 3 directives, 22 June 1941, J. Erikson; Stalin's cabinet: the Politburo and decision making in the post-war years, Yoram Gorlizki; The Leningrad affair and the provincialisation of Leningrad, Blair A. Ruble; The standard of living of Soviet industrial workers in the immediate post-war period, 1945-48, Donald Filzer. Part IV Stagnation: Khrushchev and Brezhnev: Khrushchev's image in the light of glasnost and perestroika, David Nordlander; The fall of Nikita Khrushchev, William J. Tompson; Patronage networks and coalition building in the Brezhnev era, John P. Willerton Jr. Part V Gorbachev and the Collapse of the Soviet Union: Brezhnev's 'social contract' and Gorbachev's reforms, Linda J. Cook; Perestroika as revolution from within: an interpretation, John Gooding; The making of elections to the Congress of People's Deputies (CPD) in March 1989, Vladimir N. Brovkin; A Socialist pluralism of opi

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Peter Waldron