Title:
The Soviet Union : a documentary history / [edited by] Edward Acton and Tom Stableford.
Author:
Acton, Edward.
Stableford, Tom.
Publication Information:
Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2005-2007.
Call Number:
DK266 .S577 2005 V.2
Abstract:
These volumes are a new integrated documentary history of the Soviet Union. Drawing on new archival material it seeks to erase the misconceptions moulded by the Cold War and perpetuated in widely used western textbooks, fiction and journalism.--[book cover]
Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0801/2006462723.htmlPublisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1009/2006462723-d.html
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1009/2006462723-b.html
ISBN:
9780859897150
9780859895811
9780859897167
9780859895828
Series:
Exeter studies in history
Exeter studies in history (Unnumbered)
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
v. 1. 1917-1940. pt. 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' -- pt. 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 -- pt. 3: Soviet society under Stalin (1928-1940). collectivization and the peasantry -- Industrialization and the working class -- 'Cultural revolution' and the intelligentsia -- The great terror -- Church and state.
v. 2. 1939-1991. pt. 1: Dealing with Hitler (1939-1941). The Nazi-Soviet Pact -- The winter war -- Military reform and Buffer-building against Germany -- Stalin's disastrous miscalculation -- pt. 2: Invasion and the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Barbarossa -- Allies -- Stiffening Soviet resistance -- German onslaught -- The home front, legitimacy and the economic war effort -- The turning of the tide: Stalingrad and Kursk -- Postwar expectations -- Repression -- pt. 3: Stabilization and stagnation (1945-1985). The Cold War -- The command economy -- The one-party state -- Marxism-Leninism and dissent -- pt. 4: Crisis and collapse (1985-1991). The end of the Cold War and of the 'socialist commonwealth' -- The end of the command economy -- Glasnost -- Democratization -- Nationalism -- The break-up of the USSR.
