The Soviet Union - 9781138622845

Name: The Soviet Union - 9781138622845
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This volume brings together key articles that analyse its birth in the 1917 revolution, the development of Stalin's tyranny and Soviet decline from the 1960s onwards. It includes scholarship of the highest quality that illuminates this key episode in the history of both Europe and the wider world. > The Soviet Union was one of the most significant historical phenomena of the twentieth century. This volume brings together key articles that analyse its birth in the 1917 revolution, the development of Stalin's tyranny and Soviet decline from the 1960s onwards. The collection includes scholarship of the highest quality that illuminates this key episode in the history of both Europe and the wider world. > Contents: Series preface; Introduction. Part I The Bolshevik Seizure and Consolidation of Power: Lenin's conception of revolution as civil war, Israel Getzler; The Red Army and mass mobilisation during the Russian civil war, 1918-1920, Orlando Figes; Bolshevik razverstka and war coi