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Table of Contents:

• Prelude to revolution
• A land of contrasts
• Revolutionary politics
• The Revolution of 1905
• The eve of war and revolution
• 1917 : the year of revolution
• The radicalization of society
• The Bolshevik rise to power
• Views of the Revolution
• The consolidation of Bolshevik rule, 1918-1921
• The fate of the royal family
• Opposition and criticism
• The embrace of dictatorship
• Peasant resistance and the crisis of Kronstadt
• The road to socialism
• The transformation of culture and society
• Celebrating revolution
• The debate about NEP
• Stalin's revolution from above, 1928-1932
• Beating Russia into the 20th century

• The war against the peasantry and church
• The world of five-year plans
• Picture essay: Women's liberation in the Soviet Union
• Soviet society and culture in the 1930s
• The cult of Stalin
• The Stalinist revolution
• The Great Terror
• The Gulag
• Three views of the purges
• The trial of Bukharin
• Literature and the purges
• Epilogue
• Assessments of Stalinism
• Reflection on the Soviet experience
• Timeline.

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Author/Creator:

Weinberg, Robert

Contributors:

Bernstein, Laurie

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Revolutionary Russia: a history in documents [by Weinberg, R.]

Related Series:

Pages from history

Subjects:

Soviet Union — History — 1917-1936 — Sources

Russia — History — Nicholas II, 1894-1917 — Sources

Social change — Soviet Union — History — Sources

Social change — Russia — History — 20th century — Sources

Soviet Union — Social conditions — 1917-1945 — Sources

Russia — Social conditions — 1801-1917 — Sources

Communism — Soviet Union — History — Sources

Political culture — Soviet Union — History — Sources

Soviet Union — Politics and government — 1917-1936 — Sources

Russia — Politics and government — 1894-1917 — Sources

1801-1999

Social conditions

Communism

Political culture

Politics and government

Social change

Soviet Union

Russia

Genres:

Sources

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

ix, 239 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm.

Call Numbers:

DK266.A3 W45 2011

ISBNs:

9780195337945 (pbk., alk. paper)
9780195122251 (hardcover, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009038666

OCLC Numbers:

444109990