| Description |
xiii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue -- The autocratic state -- The nineteenth-century crisis -- The people -- The intelligentsia: strangers in a strange land -- Capitalism comes to Russia -- The revolutionaries regroup -- The final years and last stand -- 1917: Russia's two revolutions -- Into the fire: the civil war -- New policies and new problems -- Bolshevism without Lenin -- The revolution from above -- Trial by fire: the great patriotic war -- September songs -- Khrushchev: transforming the revolution -- Brezhnev: the graying of the revolution -- Andropov and Chernenko: the waning of the old guard |
| Summary |
Recounts the factors shaping the history of the USSR to the present |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [299]-301 |
| SUBJECT |
Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125803
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USSR -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125764
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| LC no. |
84020253 |
| ISBN |
0684181789 |
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0684181797 (paperback) |
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