The Shortest History of the Soviet Union / / Sheila Fitzpatrick.
In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries came to power in the war-torn Russian Empire in a way that defied all predictions, including their own. Scarcely a lifespan later, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed as accidentally as it arose. The decades between witnessed drama on an epic scale—the chaos and ho...
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Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 MAKING THE UNION
- 2 THE LENIN YEARS AND THE SUCCESSION STRUGGLE
- 3 STALINISM
- 4 WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH
- 5 FROM ‘COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP’ TO KHRUSHCHEV
- 6 THE BREZHNEV PERIOD
- 7 THE FALL
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Further Reading
- List of Images
- Index