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This revised eighth edition traces the dramatic transformations of Russian society from the opening decades of the 20th century to the present day. In the light of revised theories, Professor Treadgold re-examines the rise of Russian Marxism from its early beginnings.
List of contents
New Currents In Old Russia * Introduction: Into Totalitarianism and Out of It * The Russian People * Marxism Comes to Russia * The Last Tsar: Reaction and the Revolution of 1905 * The Silver Age of the Arts * Growth of the Russian Economy * The Last Years of Tsarism * The February Revolution * The October Revolution * The Civil War (19171921) * Lenin and the New Economic Policy * Stalin, Trotsky, and Bukharin * Finding a Soviet Foreign Policy (19171927) * The Revolution, the Arts, and the Church (19171927) * Stalin and the First Five-Year Plan (19281932) * The Consolidation of Totalitarianism (19331941) * Lenin, Stalin, and the Non-Russians * Stalins Diplomacy and World Communism (19271935) * Stalins Diplomacy and and World Communism (19361941) * Stalins Cultural Policy (19271945) * The USSR in World War II: The Military Crisis (19411943) * The USSR in World War II: Political Successes (19431945) * Communist Expansion in Europe (19451953) * Communist Expansion in Asia (19451956) * Stalins Retrenchment (19451953) * The Rise and Ascendency of Khrushchv (19531964) * The Brezhnev Regime (19641982) * The Venture of Gorbachv * The Revolution of 1991 and After * The Revolution of 1991 and the New Russia
About the author
Donald Treadgold
Summary
This revised eighth edition traces the dramatic transformations of Russian society from the opening decades of the 20th century to the present day. In the light of revised theories, Professor Treadgold re-examines the rise of Russian Marxism from its early beginnings.
