ABSTRACT
The Soviet Union was one of the most significant historical phenomena of the twentieth century. This volume brings together key articles that analyse its birth in the 1917 revolution, the development of Stalin's tyranny and Soviet decline from the 1960s onwards. The collection includes scholarship of the highest quality that illuminates this key episode in the history of both Europe and the wider world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|131 pages
The Bolshevik Seizure and Consolidation of Power
part II|116 pages
Stalin and Stalinism
part III|106 pages
War and Post-War Recovery
part IV|72 pages
Stagnation: Khrushchev and Brezhnev
part V|104 pages
Gorbachev and the Collapse of the Soviet Union