| Description |
x, 575 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
I: The origins -- Why Socialism? -- Any why in Russia first? -- II: The experiment -- The road to October: 1917 -- A regime is born: war communism, 1918-1921 -- The road not take: NEP, 1921-1928 -- And they built socialism: 1929-1935 -- Purge and consolidation: 1935-1939 -- III: The empire -- The fortunes of war: 1939-1953 -- Reform communism I: Khrushchev's Moscow spring, 1953-1964 -- And the bill came due: Brezhnev and Nomenklatura communism, 1964-1982 -- IV: The end -- Reform communism II: Gorbachev and Perestroika, 1982-1988 -- From Perestroika to collapse: 1989-1991 -- The perverse logic of Utopia -- The legacy |
| Summary |
Details the evolution of Sovietism over seventy-four years from its origins to its end in 1991 |
| Analysis |
Communism History |
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-334) and index |
| Subject |
Communism -- Soviet Union -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
USSR -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125832
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| LC no. |
93050128 |
| ISBN |
0029197953 |
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9780029197950 |
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0684823136 |
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9780684823133 |
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