Soviet Union: A Documentary History Volume 1

1917-1940

AvEdward Acton,Tom Stableford

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

Del i serien Exeter Studies in History

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Beskrivning

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 entrée 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-12-01
Mått:153 x 232 x 27 mm
Vikt:746 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Exeter Studies in History
Antal sidor:448
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9780859895811

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Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Edward Acton is 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. Tom Stableford is Assistant Librarian, Slavonic and East European Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford.

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…this superb work strikes a welcome balance between the usual party and state documents detailing ideological conflict, tactical manoeuvring, and repression and less familiar ones illuminating questions about religion, peasant experience, social protest, and daily life in regions beyond Moscow and Leningrad. The addition of memoirs, diaries and letters is particularly welcome…

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsPart 1Revolution and Civil War (1917-1921): The February revolution and the Provisional GovernmentThe Bolshevik seizure of soviet powerBolshevik state, Orthodox churchSoviet power and the peasantryThe other Russia: a "third way" or dictatorship?TerrorThe crisis of "war communism"Part 2The Period of the "New Economic Policy" (NEP) (1921-1928): The economy, the market and planningThe state, the party and the leadership struggleSoviet power and the intelligentsiaChurch and statePart 3Soviet Society under Stalin (1928-1940): Collectivization and the peasantryIndustrialization and the working classIntelligentsia, opposition and terrorChurch and state