The Cambridge history of Russia. Volume 3, The twentieth century / edited by Ronald Grigor Suny.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Suny, Ronald Grigor, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russia--History--20th century.

Russia.

Soviet Union--History.

Soviet Union.

Russia--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 842 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Summary:

The third volume of The Cambridge History of Russia provides an authoritative political, intellectual, social and cultural history of the trials and triumphs of Russia and the Soviet Union during the twentieth century. It encompasses not only the ethnically Russian part of the country but also the non-Russian peoples of the tsarist and Soviet multinational states and of the post-Soviet republics. Beginning with the revolutions of the early twentieth century, chapters move through the 1920s to the Stalinist 1930s, World War II, the post-Stalin years and the decline and collapse of the USSR. The contributors attempt to go beyond the divisions that marred the historiography of the USSR during the Cold War to look for new syntheses and understandings. The volume is also the first major undertaking by historians and political scientists to use the new primary and archival sources that have become available since the break-up of the USSR.

Contents:

Introduction / Ronald Grigor Suny

Reading Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century: how the 'West' wrote its history of the USSR / Ronald Grigor Suny

Russia and the Soviet Union: The Story through Time

Russia's fin de siècle, 1900-1914 / Mark D. Steinberg

The First World War, 1914-1918 / Mark Von Hagen

The revolutions of 1917-1918 / S.A. Smith

The Russian civil war, 1917-1922 / Donald J. Raleigh

Building a new state and society: NEP, 1921-1928 / Alan Ball

Stalinism, 1928-1940 / David R. Shearer

Patriotic War, 1941-1945 / John Barber and Mark Harrison

Stalin and his circle / Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk

The Khrushchev period, 1953-1964 / William Taubman

The Brezhnev era / Stephen E. Hanson

The Gorbachev era / Archie Brown

The Russian Federation / Michael McFaul

Russia and the Soviet Union: Themes and Trends

Economic and demographic change: Russia's age of economic extremes / Peter Gatrell

Transforming peasants in the twentieth century: dilemmas of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet development / Esther Kingston-Mann

Workers and industrialization / Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Women and the state / Barbara Alpern Engel

Non-Russians in the Soviet Union and after / Jeremy Smith

The western republics: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and the Baltics / Serhy Yekelchyk

Science, technology and modernity / David Holloway

Culture, 1900-1945 / James Von Geldern

The politics of culture, 1945-2000 / Josephine Woll

Comintern and Soviet foreign policy, 1919-1941 / Jonathan Haslam

Moscow's foreign policy, 1945-2000: identities, institutions and interests / Ted Hopf

The Soviet Union and the road to communism / Lars T. Lih.

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ISBN:

9781139054096 (ebook)

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