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Russia had an extraordinary twentieth century, undergoing upheaval and transformation. Updating his acclaimed "History of Twentieth-Century Russia" through 2002, Robert Service provides a panoramic perspective on a country whose Soviet past encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror, and two world wars. He shows how seven decades of communist rule, which penetrated every aspect of Soviet life, continue to influence Russia today. This new edition also discusses continuing economic and social difficulties at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the military campaign in Chechnya, and Russia's reduced role on the world stage.
| ISBN | 067401801X | | Pages | 704 | | ISBN13 | 9780674018013
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Harvard University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 744 | | Imprint | Harvard University Press | | Published in | Cambridge, Mass | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 205 | | Publication date | 01 Mar 2005 | | Width (mm) | 142 | | Library of Congress | 2004060610 | | Spine width (mm) | 44 | | DEWEY | 947.08 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| 1 | | And Russia? 1900-1914 | | 1 | | 2 | | The fall of the Romanovs 1914-1917 | | 24 | | 3 | | Conflicts and crises 1917 | | 45 | | 4 | | The October Revolution 1917-1918 | | 62 | | 5 | | New world, old world | | 81 | | 6 | | Civil wars 1918-1921 | | 101 | | 7 | | The new economic policy 1921-1928 | | 123 | | 8 | | Leninism and its discontents | | 150 | | 9 | | The first five-year plan 1928-1932 | | 169 | | 10 | | Fortresses under storm : culture, religion, nation | | 190 | | 11 | | Terror upon terror 1934-1938 | | 210 | | 12 | | Coping with big brothers | | 235 | | 13 | | The Second World War 1939-1945 | | 254 | | 14 | | Suffering and struggle 1941-1945 | | 275 | | 15 | | The hammers of peace 1945-1953 | | 293 | | 16 | | The despot and his masks | | 314 | | 17 | | 'De-Stalinization' 1953-1961 | | 331 | | 18 | | Hopes unsettled 1961-1964 | | 356 | | 19 | | Stabilization 1964-1970 | | 376 | | 20 | | 'Developed socialism' 1970-1982 | | 397 | | 21 | | Privilege and alienation | | 412 | | 22 | | Towards reform 1982-1985 | | 428 | | 23 | | Glasnost and Perestroika 1986-1988 | | 448 | | 24 | | Imploding Imperium 1989 | | 467 | | 25 | | Hail and farewell 1990-1991 | | 485 | | 26 | | Power and the market 1992-1993 | | 509 | | 27 | | And Russia? 1994-2002 | | 529 | | | More... | | |
A fine book...It is a dizzying tale and Service tells it well; he has none of the ideological baggage that has so often bedeviled Western histories of Russia...A balanced, dispassionate and painstaking account.--Brian Moynahan "Sunday Times "  Be the first to write a customer review
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