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v. 1 : paperback ISBN 9780859895811
Description
This is the first volume of a new integrated documentary history of the Soviet Union. The Soviet story-the revolution, Lenin, Stalinism, the Great Patriotic War, the era of Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Cold War, and the dramatic collapse under Gorbachev-looms large in history syllabuses across the world. This book will be a valuable resource for students at all levels, drawing upon the primary material that has come to light since the collapse of Communist rule in 1991. Combining lucid narrative commentary and a rich selection of evocative documents, it provides a lively entree to current debate over humanity's most momentous and tragic experiment. This volume is organised chronologically, subdivided thematically and incorporates over 200 documents. Key terms and references to individuals, places, events and institutions are explained and guidance provided on significant features of the primary sources. Conceived as companion to the highly-regarded, best-selling 4- volume Nazism 1919-1945: A Documentary Reader by Noakes & Pridham, also published by UEP, it assumes no prior knowledge of the subject.
Table of Contents
Contents
Part 1
Revolution and Civil War (1917-1921): The February revolution and the Provisional Government
The Bolshevik seizure of soviet power
Bolshevik state, Orthodox church
Soviet power and the peasantry
The other Russia: a "third way" or dictatorship?
Terror
The crisis of "war communism"
Part 2
The Period of the "New Economic Policy" (NEP) (1921-1928): The economy, the market and planning
The state, the party and the leadership struggle
Soviet power and the intelligentsia
Church and state
Part 3
Soviet Society under Stalin (1928-1940): Collectivization and the peasantry
Industrialization and the working class
Intelligentsia, opposition and terror
Church and state
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v. 2 : paperback ISBN 9780859895828
Description
Volume Two of this new documentary history of the Soviet Union comprises over 270 documents and is organised into four chronologically distinct parts, subdivided thematically; it runs from the fraught diplomatic and military preamble of the Great Patriotic War to the final fracturing of the USSR along the national fault-lines of its 15 Union Republics. Slight overlap of chronological coverage with Volume One allows increased attention in Volume Two to foreign affairs. Areas in this volume that attract greatest student interest are the epic dramas at the beginning and end of the period - the Great Patriotic War and Perestroika.The commentary is by Edward Acton, Professor of Modern European History at the University of East Anglia, who has published widely on the Russian revolution and the history of Russia and the USSR. The documents have been translated by Tom Stableford, Assistant Librarian, Slavonic and East European Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford
Table of Contents
Contents
Note on transliteration, Russian words and acronyms
Glossary
Maps
Introduction
Part One: Dealing with Hitler, 1939-1941
1 The Nazi-Soviet Pact
2 The Winter War
3 Military Reform and Buffer-Building Against Germany
4 Stalin's Disastrous Miscalculation
Part Two: Invasion and the Great Patriotic War, 1941-45
5 Barbarossa
6 Allies
7 Stiffening Soviet Resistance
8 The Siege of Leningrad
9 The Germans Outside Moscow
10 German Occupation
11 The Home Front, Legitimacy and the Economic War-Effort
12 The Turning of the Tide: Stalingrad and Kursk
13 Expectations
14 Repression
Part Three: Stabilization and Stagnation, 1945-1985
15 The Cold War
16 The Command Economy
17 The One-Party State
18 Marxism-Leninism and Dissent
Part Four: Crisis and Collapse, 1985-1991
19 The End of the Cold War and the "Socialist Commonwealth"
20 The End of the Command Economy
21 Glasnost'
22 Democratization
23 Nationalism
24 The Break-up of the USSR
Full List of Documents
Biographical index
Subject index
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v. 1 : hardback ISBN 9780859897150
Description
This is the first volume of a new integrated documentary history of the Soviet Union. The Soviet story-the revolution, Lenin, Stalinism, the Great Patriotic War, the era of Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Cold War, and the dramatic collapse under Gorbachev-looms large in history syllabuses across the world. This book will be a valuable resource for students at all levels, drawing upon the primary material that has come to light since the collapse of Communist rule in 1991. Combining lucid narrative commentary and a rich selection of evocative documents, it provides a lively entree to current debate over humanity's most momentous and tragic experiment. This volume is organised chronologically, subdivided thematically and incorporates over 200 documents. Key terms and references to individuals, places, events and institutions are explained and guidance provided on significant features of the primary sources. Conceived as companion to the highly-regarded, best-selling 4- volume Nazism 1919-1945: A Documentary Reader by Noakes & Pridham, also published by UEP, it assumes no prior knowledge of the subject.
Table of Contents
Contents
Part 1
Revolution and Civil War (1917-1921): The February revolution and the Provisional Government
The Bolshevik seizure of soviet power
Bolshevik state, Orthodox church
Soviet power and the peasantry
The other Russia: a "third way" or dictatorship?
Terror
The crisis of "war communism"
Part 2
The Period of the "New Economic Policy" (NEP) (1921-1928): The economy, the market and planning
The state, the party and the leadership struggle
Soviet power and the intelligentsia
Church and state
Part 3
Soviet Society under Stalin (1928-1940): Collectivization and the peasantry
Industrialization and the working class
Intelligentsia, opposition and terror
Church and state
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v. 2 : hardback ISBN 9780859897167
Description
Volume Two of this new documentary history of the Soviet Union comprises over 270 documents and is organised into four chronologically distinct parts, subdivided thematically; it runs from the fraught diplomatic and military preamble of the Great Patriotic War to the final fracturing of the USSR along the national fault-lines of its 15 Union Republics. Slight overlap of chronological coverage with Volume One allows increased attention in Volume Two to foreign affairs. Areas in this volume that attract greatest student interest are the epic dramas at the beginning and end of the period - the Great Patriotic War and Perestroika.The commentary is by Edward Acton, Professor of Modern European History at the University of East Anglia, who has published widely on the Russian revolution and the history of Russia and the USSR. The documents have been translated by Tom Stableford, Assistant Librarian, Slavonic and East European Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford
Table of Contents
Contents
Note on transliteration, Russian words and acronyms
Glossary
Maps
Introduction
Part One: Dealing with Hitler, 1939-1941
1 The Nazi-Soviet Pact
2 The Winter War
3 Military Reform and Buffer-Building Against Germany
4 Stalin's Disastrous Miscalculation
Part Two: Invasion and the Great Patriotic War, 1941-45
5 Barbarossa
6 Allies
7 Stiffening Soviet Resistance
8 The Siege of Leningrad
9 The Germans Outside Moscow
10 German Occupation
11 The Home Front, Legitimacy and the Economic War-Effort
12 The Turning of the Tide: Stalingrad and Kursk
13 Expectations
14 Repression
Part Three: Stabilization and Stagnation, 1945-1985
15 The Cold War
16 The Command Economy
17 The One-Party State
18 Marxism-Leninism and Dissent
Part Four: Crisis and Collapse, 1985-1991
19 The End of the Cold War and the "Socialist Commonwealth"
20 The End of the Command Economy
21 Glasnost'
22 Democratization
23 Nationalism
24 The Break-up of the USSR
Full List of Documents
Biographical index
Subject index
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