Russia in the Twentieth Century : The quest for stability

ISBN-13: 9781408228227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 372 str.

Marples, David R.

Opis

David Marples presents an overview of 20th century Russian history and shows that although contemporary Russia has retained many of the practices and memories of the Soviet period, it is not about to revert back to the Soviet example.

Spis treści

Foreword
Glossary
Chapter 1: From Tsarism to Revolution: 1894-1917
Chapter 2: The October Revolution: 1917-1921
Chapter 3: NEP and the Rise of Stalin: 1921-1928
Chapter 4: Collectivization, Industrialization, and the Great Purge, 1929-1940
Chapter 5: The Great Patriotic War and Aftermath: 1941-1953
Chapter 6: Khrushchev’s Reforms, 1953-1964; and Postwar Foreign Policy
Chapter 7: The Brezhnev Regime and its Successors: 1964-1984
Chapter 8: Gorbachev, Glasnost, and Perestroika: 1985-1991
Chapter 9: From Yeltsin to Putin: Russia’s Decline and Recovery, 1992-2008
Bibliography
Index

O autorze

David R. Marples is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada. He is author of twelve books on contemporary Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, including Lenin's Revolution: Russia 1917-1921 (2000) and The Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991 (2004).