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1 online resource |
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Cover; Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928; Copyright; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; Introduction; Chapter 1: ROOTS OF REVOLUTION, 1880S-1905:; Autocracy and Orthodoxy; Popular Religion; Agriculture and Peasantry ; Industrial Capitalism; Political Challenges to the Old Order; The 1905 Revolution; Chapter 2: FROM REFORM TO WAR, 1906-1917; Prospects for Reform; On the Eve of War; First World War; Politics and the Economy; Chapter 3: FROM FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1917; Dual Power; Lenin and the Bolsheviks; The Aspirations of Soldiers and Workers; The Provisional Government in Crisis |
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Revolution in the VillageThe Nationalist Challenge; Class, Nation, and Gender; Political Polarization; The October Seizure of Power; Chapter 4: CIVIL WAR AND BOLSHEVIK POWER; The Expansion of Soviets; Civil War; National Self-Determination and the Reconstitution of Empire; Violence and Terror; The Suppression of the Socialist Opposition; One-Party Dictatorship in Action; Chapter 5: WAR COMMUNISM; Mobilizing Industry; The Food Dictatorship; War Communism in Crisis; Social Order Overturned; Fighting the Church; Worker Unrest; Peasant Wars; The Kronstadt Rebellion |
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Chapter 6: THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY: POLITICS AND THE ECONOMYNew Economic Policy and Agriculture; New Economic Policy and Industry; New Economic Policy and Labour; The Inner-Party Struggle; The Party-State; Instituting Law; Governing the Countryside; Foreign Policy and Promoting Revolution; Nation-Building; The Limits of NEP; Chapter 7: THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY: SOCIETY AND CULTURE; Social Order Restored; Designing a Welfare State; The Arts and Utopia; Family and Gender Relations; Youth: A Wavering Vanguard; Propaganda and Popular Culture; Cultural Revolution; The Attack on Religion |
| Summary |
A panoramic account of the Russian empire from the last years of the nineteenth century, through revolution and civil war, to the brutal collectivization and crash industrialization under Stalin in the late 1920s |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125803
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Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125808
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Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125811
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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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| ISBN |
9780191054037 |
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0191054038 |
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9780191054044 |
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0191054046 |
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