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Moshe Lewin, Gregory Elliott - Soviet Century, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Soviet Century

Av Moshe Lewin, Gregory Elliott

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Beskrivning
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary, yet tragic, attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to write.In The Soviet Century, Moshe Lewin follows this history in all its complexity, guiding us through the inner workings of a system which is still barely understood. In the process he overturns widely held beliefs about the USSR's leaders, the State-Party system and the powerful Soviet bureaucracy.Departing from a simple linear history, The Soviet Century traces all the continuities and ruptures that led from the founding revolution of October 1917 to the final collapse of the late 1980s and early 1990s, passing through the Stalinist dictatorship, the impossible reforms of the Khrushchev years and the glasnost and perestroika policies of Gorbachev.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-10-18
  • Mått: 127 x 193 x 30 mm
  • Vikt: 295 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 432
  • Förlag: Verso Books
  • ISBN: 9781784780661
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Moshe Lewin was a hugely respected historian of the Soviet Union. Professor of Soviet Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, his books include Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison and The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia.

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Probably no other Western historian of the USSR combines Moshe Lewin's personal experience of living with Russians from Stalin's day-as a young wartime soldier-to the post-communist era, with so profound a familiarity with the archives and the literature of the Soviet era. His reflections on the 'Soviet Century' are an important contribution to emancipating Soviet history from the ideological heritage of the last century and should be essential reading for all who wish to understand it.

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  1. 4/5 Rättvisa

    Lewin skriver en intressant historia över Sovjetunionen. Man kan diskutera hans prioriteringar och det man främst saknar är den vanlige "Ivan". Men motsättningarna i toppen, intrigerna, demografin och en rad konflikter får en grundlig granskning.