The Soviet century

by Lewin, Moshe

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Full title :The Soviet century / Moshe Lewin ; edited by Gregory Elliott.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Verso
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2005.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (ix, 416 pages)

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ISBN:9781844670161, 1844670163, 0844670162, 9780844670164
oclc:ocn298104957
LC Classification:DK266
Dewey Decimal:947.084

Stalin knows where he wants to get to--and is getting there -- 'Autonomization versus federation' (1922-3) -- 'Cadres into heretics' -- The party and its apparaty -- Social flux and 'systemic paranoia' -- The impact of collectivization -- Between legality and bacchanalia -- How did Stalin rule? -- The purges and their 'rationale' -- The scale of the purges -- The camps and the industrial empire of the NKVD -- Endgame -- An agrarian despotism? -- 'E pur, si muove!' -- The KGB and the political opposition -- The avalanche of urbanization -- The 'administrators' : bruised but thriving -- Some leaders -- Kosygin and Andropov -- Lenin's time and worlds -- Backwardness and relapse -- Modernity with a twist -- Urbanization : successes and failures -- Labour force and demography : a conundrum -- The bureaucratic maze -- 'Telling the light from the shade'? -- What was the Soviet system?