The Shortest History of the Soviet Union /

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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Fitzpatrick, Sheila,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]
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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

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