The rise and fall of the Soviet Union

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"The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union examines the strengths, weaknesses, and contradictions of the first Marxist state, and reassesses the role of power, authority and legitimacy in Soviet politics. Including first-person accounts, anecdotes, illustrations and diagrams to illustrate key concepts, McCauley provides a seminal history of this twentieth-century Superpower."--BOOK JACKET.

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Full title :The rise and fall of the Soviet Union / Martin McCauley.

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Publication Date:2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Longman
Place of Publication:Harlow, England
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008.

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The Physical Object

Description:xxix, 522 p. : : ill., maps ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780582784659, 0582784654
oclc:on1158786441
LC Classification:DK266
Dewey Decimal:947.084

Ave atque vale -- 1917: days of hope and days of despair -- Soviet power, terror and civil war -- Muslims and others and revolution -- Women and revolution -- The new economic policy -- Diplomats and spies -- Society and culture -- Collectivisation: turning private peasants into state peasants -- Industrialisation -- Terror and the gulag -- State and society -- Pursuing peace and preparing for war -- Total war -- The onset of the Cold War -- High Stalinism -- Bolshevik speak -- Stalin, Hitler and Mao -- The Khruschev era -- The Brezhenev era -- The Gorbachev era -- Strengths and weaknesses of the Societ system -- Russia reborn.

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