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The Soviet colossus : history and aftermath /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kort, Michael, 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2019]
Edition:Eighth edition.
Subjects:
Soviet Union > History.
Russia > History > Nicholas II, 1894-1917.
Table of Contents:
  • The fundamentals of Russian history
  • Prologue
  • The autocratic state
  • The nineteenth-century crisis
  • The people
  • The intelligentsia: strangers in a strange land
  • The end of the old order
  • Capitalism comes to Russia
  • The revolutionaries regroup
  • The final years and last stand
  • Lenin's Russia
  • 1917: Russia's two revolutions
  • Into the fire: the Civil War
  • New policies and new problems
  • Steeling the revolution
  • Bolshevism without Lenin
  • The revolution from above
  • Trial by fire: the Great Patriotic War
  • Conservative Stalinism
  • The socialist superpower
  • Khrushchev: reforming the revolution
  • The Brezhnev Era: the graying of the revolution
  • Gorbachev: from restructuring to deconstruction
  • The Russian Federation
  • The Russian devolution
  • Russia in the twenty-first century
  • Chronology.