| Description |
xi, 210 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
A Spectrum book |
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Spectrum book.
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| Contents |
1: Lenin -- The young intelligent -- The quest for a party -- The crucible of revolution -- Failure in triumph -- Lenin and the Bolshevik tradition -- 2: From cottage to Kremlin -- Preserving the Monolith -- The age of Stalin: the myth and the machine -- The age of Stalin: terror and Utopia -- The age of Stalin: security and imperialism -- Stalin and the Bolshevik tradition -- 3: Khrushchev -- The education of a Stalinist -- The triumph of the first secretary -- Khrushchev's communism -- Khrushchev and the Bolshevik tradition -- 4: Brezhnev -- The ungrateful protégé -- Dekhrushchevization -- The primacy of the general secretary -- The Bolshevik tradition in perspective |
| Analysis |
Soviet Union Politics, 1917-1974 |
| Notes |
First ed. published in 1963 under title: The Bolshevik tradition: Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 196-204 |
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Includes index |
| Subject |
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971.
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Brezhnev, Leonid Ilʹich, 1906-1982.
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Brezhnev, Leonid Ilùich, 1906-
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Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924.
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Lenin, Vladimir Ilùich, 1870-1924
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Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
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Communism -- Soviet Union.
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| SUBJECT |
USSR -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125832 -- 1917-
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USSR -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125832
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
74020922 |
| ISBN |
0130797642 (paperback) |
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0130797723 |
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