Russia in the Twentieth Century: The quest for stability

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Routledge, 14 janv. 2014 - 392 pages

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.

 

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1 From tsarism to revolution 18941917
1
2 The October Revolution 19171921
31
3 NEP and the rise of Stalin 19211928
58
4 Collectivization industrialization and the Great Purge 19291940
91
5 The Great Patriotic War and aftermath 19411953
135
6 Khrushchevs reforms 19531964 and postwar foreign policy
176
7 The Brezhnev regime and its successors 19641984
222
8 Gorbachev Glasnost and Perestroika 19851991
260
Russias decline and recovery 19922008
304
Bibliography of older works
338
Index
351
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David R. Marples is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada. He is author of twelve books on contemporary Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, including Lenin's Revolution: Russia 1917-1921 (2000) and The Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991 (2004).

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