The Soviet Colossus: History and Aftermath
Autor Michael G. Korten Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mai 2019
This eighth edition has been revised and updated to cover the latest developments from the Putin administration. These revisions include added emphasis on the increasing authoritarian nature of Russia’s political system, the serious challenges posed by the country’s unsolved economic and social problems, and the growing tensions between Russia on the one hand and the United States and the European Union on the other as a result of Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine. Kort combines this updated account with a broad exploration of Russia’s political history, examining how the Soviet past has been woven into the fabric of the modern Russian state, a state which plays such a major, assertive role in global affairs, but which simultaneously remains an allusive, secretive entity.
With Russia’s increasing influence on the global stage and the controversies that often accompany this, The Soviet Colossus is an invaluable resource for students of history, politics, and international relations.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780815399216
ISBN-10: 0815399219
Pagini: 540
Ilustrații: map, photos, chronology, bibliography, index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 35 mm
Greutate: 1.5 kg
Ediția:8th edition
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0815399219
Pagini: 540
Ilustrații: map, photos, chronology, bibliography, index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 35 mm
Greutate: 1.5 kg
Ediția:8th edition
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
UndergraduateCuprins
Preface to the Eighth Edition Acknowledgements Part 1 The Fundamentals of Russian History 1. Prologue 2. The Autocratic State 3. The Nineteenth-Century Crisis 4. The People 5. The Intelligentsia: Strangers in a Strange Land Part 2 The End of the Old Order 6. Capitalism Comes to Russia 7. The Revolutionaries Regroup 8. The Final Years and Last Stand Part 3 Lenin’s Russia 9. 1917: Russia’s Two Revolutions 10. Into the Fire: The Civil War 11. New Policies and New Problems Part 4 Steeling the Revolution 12. Bolshevism Without Lenin 13. The Revolution From Above 14. Trial by Fire: The Great Patriotic War 15. Conservative Stalinism Part 5 The Socialist Superpower 16. Khrushchev: Reforming the Revolution 17. The Brezhnev Era: The Graying of the Revolution 18. Gorbachev: From Restructuring to Deconstruction Part 6 The Russian Federation 19. The Russian Devolution 20. Russia in the Twenty-First Century Chronology Selected Readings
Notă biografică
Michael G. Kort is Professor of Social Science in the College of General Studies at Boston University, USA, and has been a fellow of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University, USA. In addition to his work on Soviet history, he is the author of The Columbia Guide to the Cold War (1998), The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb (2007), A Brief History of Russia (2008), The Vietnam War Reexamined (2018), and co-author of Modernization and Revolution in China (5th ed. 2018). He has written more than a dozen books for young adults, including biographies of Nikita Khrushchev and Mikhail Gorbachev, a history of the Cold War, and a history of Marxism. The first edition of The Soviet Colossus was an alternate selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
Descriere
The Soviet Colossus revisits turning points in Russia’s modern history from the fall of the tsarist regime to modern day, covering such topics as the Revolutions and rise of Bolshevism, and the policies of key political figures including Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev Vladimir Putin.