| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 792 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge histories online |
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Cambridge histories online
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| Contents |
Introduction / Ronald Grigor Suny -- Reading Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century: how the 'West' wrote its history of the USSR / Ronald Grigor Suny -- Russia and the Soviet Union: The Story through Time -- Russia's fin de siècle, 1900-1914 / Mark D. Steinberg -- The First World War, 1914-1918 / Mark Von Hagen -- The revolutions of 1917-1918 / S.A. Smith -- The Russian civil war, 1917-1922 / Donald J. Raleigh -- Building a new state and society: NEP, 1921-1928 / Alan Ball -- Stalinism, 1928-1940 / David R. Shearer -- Patriotic War, 1941-1945 / John Barber and Mark Harrison -- Stalin and his circle / Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk -- The Khrushchev period, 1953-1964 / William Taubman -- The Brezhnev era / Stephen E. Hanson -- The Gorbachev era / Archie Brown -- The Russian Federation / Michael McFaul -- Russia and the Soviet Union: Themes and Trends -- Economic and demographic change: Russia's age of economic extremes / Peter Gatrell -- Transforming peasants in the twentieth century: dilemmas of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet development / Esther Kingston-Mann -- Workers and industrialization / Lewis H. Siegelbaum -- Women and the state / Barbara Alpern Engel -- Non-Russians in the Soviet Union and after / Jeremy Smith -- The western republics: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and the Baltics / Serhy Yekelchyk -- Science, technology and modernity / David Holloway -- Culture, 1900-1945 / James Von Geldern -- The politics of culture, 1945-2000 / Josephine Woll -- Comintern and Soviet foreign policy, 1919-1941 / Jonathan Haslam -- Moscow's foreign policy, 1945-2000: identities, institutions and interests / Ted Hopf -- The Soviet Union and the road to communism / Lars T. Lih |
| Summary |
This third volume provides an authoritative political, intellectual, social and cultural history of the trials and triumphs of Russia and the Soviet Union during the 20th century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Civilization
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| SUBJECT |
Russia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004044
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Russia -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004158
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Soviet Union -- History
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Soviet Union -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125714
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| Subject |
Russia
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Soviet Union
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Suny, Ronald Grigor
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| ISBN |
9781139054096 |
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1139054090 |
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9780511468292 |
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0511468296 |
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9781139054096 |
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