Readings in Russian civilization. Volume III, Soviet Russia, 1917-present / edited, with introductory notes, by Thomas Riha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Riha, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Russia--History.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Edition:

2d ed., rev.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""This new and enlarged version of Readings in Russian Civilization is the result of fairly extensive revisions. There are now 72 instead of 64 items; 20 of the selections are new. The first volume has undergone the least change with 3 new items, of which 2 appear in English for the first time. In the second volume there are 6 new items; all of them appear in English for the first time. The third volume has undergone the greatest revision, with 11 new items, of which 6 are newly translated from the Russian. It is the editor's hope that items left out in the new edition will not be

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Acknowledgments; 44. Testimony of the February Revolution; 45 The Russian Village, Summer 1917; 46 Russia's One-Day Parliament; 47 Days with Lenin; 48 Down with Factionalism!; 49 The History of a Soviet Collective Farm; 50 A Day in Magnitogorsk; 51 Socialist Gold; 52 The Soviet Constitution; 53 On the Constitution; 54 The Soviet System of Government; 55 I Speak for the Silent; 56 The Purge Trials; 57 The Blockade of Leningrad; 58 The Second World War; 59 The Party and the Arts; 60 The Adventures of an Ape

61 My Worthless and Vicious Film62 The Destruction of Soviet Genetics; 63 Stalin's Coffin; 64 ""Pilfering the People's Wealth""; 65 From New York to Los Angeles; 66 Is the Soviet Union a Welfare State?; 67 Standard Bearers of Communist Labor; 68 Soviet Nationality Policy; 69 Soviet Religious Policy; 70 Are We Flirting with Capitalism?; 71 On the Events in China; 72 Whither the Soviet Union?; Chronology; Correlation Tables

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780226718460

0226718468

OCLC:

781292636