The rise and fall of Communism in Russia / Robert V. Daniels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daniels, Robert V. (Robert Vincent), 1926-2010.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism--Soviet Union--History.

Communism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 481 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Distinguished historian of the Soviet period Robert V. Daniels offers a penetrating survey of the evolution of the Soviet system and its ideology. In a tightly woven series of analyses written during his career-long inquiry into the Soviet Union, Daniels explores the Soviet experience from Karl Marx to Boris Yeltsin and shows how key ideological notions were altered as Soviet history unfolded.The book exposes a long history of American misunderstanding of the Soviet Union, leading up to the "grand surprise" of its collapse in 1991. Daniels's perspective is always original, and his assessments, some worked out years ago, are strikingly prescient in the light of post-1991 archival revelations. Soviet Communism evolved and decayed over the decades, Daniels argues, through a prolonged revolutionary process, combined with the challenges of modernization and the personal struggles between ideologues and power-grabbers.

Contents:

Marxism and Leninism

The Bolshevik Revolution

The left opposition between Lenin and Stalin

Stalinism

Reform versus bureaucracy, from Khrushchev to Brezhnev

Gorbachev and the end of the communist system

After the fall: reflections on the Soviet experience.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-463) and index.

ISBN:

9786611734534

9781281734532

1281734535

9780300134933

0300134932

OCLC:

1013956758