Title Russia in the Twentieth Century : the quest for stability

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (393 pages) Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; List of boxes; Acknowledgements; Publisher's acknowledgements; Maps; Preface; Glossary; 1 From tsarism to revolution, 1894-1917; Social and political conditions in tsarist Russia; The war with Japan; The 1905 Revolution; The time of the Dumas; Stolypin's reforms; The alliance system; The First World War; The February Revolution; The return of Lenin; The July Days; The Kornilov revolt; 2 The October Revolution, 1917-1921; The Constituent Assembly; Making peace with the Central Powers The Cheka and the beginning of the Red TerrorThe start of War Communism; The start of the civil war; Red victory; The war with the Poles; The end of the civil war; The Kronstadt rebellion; 3 NEP and the rise of Stalin, 1921-1928; The formation of the USSR; The start of the New Economic Policy; The development of a Soviet bureaucracy; The rise of Stalin; The death of Lenin; The formation of the United Opposition; Propaganda, literacy, and education; Foreign policy in the 1920s; Summary: the 1920s; 4 Collectivization, industrialization and the Great Purge, 1929-1940; Introduction The decision to collectivize agricultureMass collectivization begins; The Great Famine in Ukraine; Completion of collectivization; The start of industrialization; The purges; Socialist Realism begins; Foreign policy in the 1930s; Popular Fronts; Toward the Nazi-Soviet Pact; 5 The Great Patriotic War and aftermath, 1941-1953; Early stages; The assault on Leningrad and Kyiv; Operation Typhoon: the attack on Moscow; The Partisan movement; Stalingrad; Wartime culture: the peak of Socialist Realism; The Battle of Kursk Salient; Stalin and his allies; Victory in the West and in the East The results of the Great Patriotic WarEconomic recovery; Armed resistance; The period of High Stalinism; 6 Khrushchev's reforms, 1953-1964; and postwar foreign policy; The succession question; The Virgin Lands Program; The 20th Party Congress; The attack on the Russian Orthodox Church; Cultural thaw; Foreign policy during the early Cold War, 1945-1963; Another plot; 7 The Brezhnev regime and its successors, 1964-1984; Introduction; Leonid Ilich Brezhnev; The economy; The Constitution of 1977; Language and political questions in the national republics; Foreign policy under Brezhnev Culture under BrezhnevThe dissident movement; The last years of the Brezhnev regime; The interlude: Andropov and Chernenko; 8 Gorbachev, Glasnost and Perestroika, 1985-1991; Introduction; The Chernobyl disaster; The development of Glasnost; Politics under Gorbachev; The perils of Perestroika; Foreign policy; The national question; 1991 -- the year of collapse; The Soviet legacy in retrospect; 9 From Yeltsin to Putin: Russia's decline and recovery, 1992-2008; Vladimir V. Putin; Political events, 2000-2008; The attack on the oligarchs; Presidential elections of 2004; Russia and its neighbors Summary The history of Russia, as the natural successor to the Soviet Union, is of crucial importance to understanding why communism ultimately lost out to Western democracy and the free market system. David Marples presents a balanced 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 Notes Chechnya: terrorism and the resumption of war Print version record Subject Communism -- Soviet Union -- History Social change -- Soviet Union -- History Post-communism -- Russia (Federation) Political stability -- Russia -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern. HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics. HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union. Communism Politics and government Political stability Post-communism Social change SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125832 Soviet Union -- History Russia -- Politics and government -- 1894-1917. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125842 Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88002518 Subject Russia Russia (Federation) Soviet Union Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317862277 1317862279

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