The Soviet colossus

Titel: The Soviet colossus : history and aftermath / Michael Kort
Verfasser:
Ausgabe: 4. ed.
Veröffentlicht: Armonk, NY ˜[u.a.]œ : Sharpe, 1996
Umfang: XII, 391 S.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
RVK-Notation:
Schlagworte:
ISBN: 1563246627 ; 1563246635
Lokale Klassifikation: 41 7 A ; 41 7 Vp ; 41 7 Q ; 41 7 V
  • Preface to the Fifth Edition
  • p. xi
  • Part I
  • The Fundamentals of Russian History
  • 1.
  • Prologue
  • p. 3
  • 2.
  • The Autocratic State
  • p. 8
  • 3.
  • The Nineteenth-Century Crisis
  • p. 19
  • 4.
  • The People
  • p. 26
  • 5.
  • The Intelligentsia: Strangers in a Strange Land
  • p. 32
  • Part II
  • The End of the Old Order
  • 6.
  • Capitalism Comes to Russia
  • p. 47
  • 7.
  • The Revolutionaries Regroup
  • p. 54
  • 8.
  • The Final Years and Last Stand
  • p. 71
  • Part III
  • Lenin's Russia
  • 9.
  • 1917: Russia's Two Revolutions
  • p. 87
  • 10.
  • Into the Fire: The Civil War
  • p. 108
  • 11.
  • New Policies and New Problems
  • p. 135
  • Part IV
  • Steeling the Revolution
  • 12.
  • Bolshevism Without Lenin
  • p. 165
  • 13.
  • The Revolution From Above
  • p. 188
  • 14.
  • Trial by Fire: The Great Patriotic War
  • p. 226
  • 15.
  • Stalin's September Songs
  • p. 241
  • Part V
  • The Socialist Superpower
  • 16.
  • Khrushchev: Reforming the Revolution
  • p. 261
  • 17.
  • The Brezhnev Era: The Graying of the Revolution
  • p. 289
  • Part VI
  • Failed Communism and Flawed Capitalism
  • 18.
  • Gorbachev: From Restructuring to Deconstruction
  • p. 333
  • 19.
  • The Russian Devolution
  • p. 385
  • Chronology
  • p. 421
  • Selected Readings
  • p. 433
  • Index
  • p. 439
  • About the Author
  • p. 466