Russia in the Twentieth Century: The Quest for Stability

ISBN-13: 9781138425347 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

David R. Marples

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

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

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).