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The Soviet century / Moshe Lewin ; edited by Gregory Elliott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewin, Moshe, 1921-2010
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soviet Union--History.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 416 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Verso, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Stalin knows where he wants to get to
- and is getting there
- 'Autonomization versus federation' (1922-3)
- 'Cadres into heretics'
- The party and its apparaty
- Social flux and 'systemic paranoia'
- The impact of collectivization
- Between legality and bacchanalia
- How did Stalin rule?
- The purges and their 'rationale'
- The scale of the purges
- The camps and the industrial empire of the NKVD
- Endgame
- An agrarian despotism?
- 'E pur, si muove!'
- The KGB and the political opposition
- The avalanche of urbanization
- The 'administrators' : bruised but thriving
- Some leaders
- Kosygin and Andropov
- Lenin's time and worlds
- Backwardness and relapse
- Modernity with a twist
- Urbanization : successes and failures
- Labour force and demography : a conundrum
- The bureaucratic maze
- 'Telling the light from the shade'?
- What was the Soviet system?
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb05271 hdl
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