Teach Yourself - Stalin's Russia

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ISBN: 9780071452120

ISBN-10: 0071452125

ISBN-13: 9780071452120

Edition: 2005

Authors: David Evans

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Josef Stalin's iron fist. "Teach Yourself Stalin's Russiaintroduces one of the greatest tyrants of the 20th century--from his rise to power in the 1920s, to the clash with Germany in WW II, to his death in 1953--and offers a look at the devastation he wrought on his own people.

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List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade
Publication date: 4/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

David Evans is a Fellow in Education in the Education Faculty at Liverpool Hope University, UK

Russia at the time of Stalin's birth	p. 1
The Djugashvili family	p. 2
Imperial Russia	p. 3
...And back to the Djugashvili family	p. 8
Towards revolution	p. 10
The political scene - the struggle to win the support of the working classes	p. 11
Tsarist reaction to threat of revolution	p. 12
The war with Japan and the revolution of 1904	p. 12
The consequences	p. 14
The period of failed Dumas	p. 15
...And what was Stalin up to during this period?	p. 16
Russia and the First World War	p. 18
Towards revolution	p. 19
Stalin's role in these events	p. 22
Civil war - the death of Lenin and the power struggle	p. 23
The situation at the end of 1917	p. 24
The short-lived Constituent Assembly	p. 24
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918	p. 26
The civil war	p. 27
'The Red Terror'	p. 29
The end of the Romanovs	p. 29
The Kronstadt rising, 1921	p. 31
Lenin's New Economic Policy	p. 32
The power struggle - Trotsky versus Stalin	p. 34
Stalin's economic policies (1) - the collectivization of argiculture	p. 38
Introduction	p. 39
Collectivization - the theory	p. 40
Collectivization - the practice	p. 41
Just how successful was collectivization?	p. 45
Stalin's economic policies (2) - the Five-Year Plans	p. 48
Five-year planning	p. 49
The first Five-Year Plan 1928-33	p. 51
The second Five-Year Plan, 1933-8	p. 53
Stakhanovism	p. 53
The third Five-Year Plan, 1938-42	p. 54
How successful was Stalin's economic revolution?	p. 55
From Marxism-Leninism to Stalinism	p. 57
Introduction	p. 58
Marxism - the Russian experience	p. 59
Stalinism	p. 60
Stalin's 'cult of personality'	p. 62
Stalin's New Constitution of 1936	p. 63
Stalinism and religion	p. 66
Stalin's 'cultural revolution'	p. 68
Stalin's terror - a time of purges and show trials	p. 76
From bloodless revolution to terror and mass murder	p. 77
The first trials for industrial espionage	p. 78
The Riutin affair	p. 80
The assassination of Kirov	p. 81
Purges and show trials	p. 83
The 'Terror' - an overview	p. 90
The impact and repercussions of the purges and show trials	p. 91
A final score to settle - the murder of Leon Trotsky	p. 92
Everyday life in Stalin's Russia	p. 95
The family	p. 96
Living conditions	p. 96
Education	p. 98
Soviet youth movements	p. 101
The role of women in the Soviet Union	p. 102
Zhenotdel	p. 103
...And what of Stalin and his own family?	p. 104
Soviet foreign policy, 1918-40	p. 106
Soviet foreign policy in the 1920s	p. 107
The Third International - Comintern	p. 108
The Treaty of Rapallo, 1922	p. 109
Soviet opportunities in the Far East	p. 111
Challenges to Soviet diplomacy in the 1930s	p. 112
The Anti-Comintern Pact, 1936	p. 114
The involvement of the Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War	p. 115
The Soviet Union and the Czech crisis	p. 117
The German-Soviet Non-Agression Pact of August 1939	p. 119
The German-Soviet invasion of Poland	p. 120
The Russo-Finnish war - 'The Winter War' of 1939-40	p. 122
The Great Patriotic War, 1941-5	p. 126
Why did Hitler invade the Soviet Union?	p. 127
Operation Barbarossa	p. 128
The German offensive - what went wrong?	p. 130
Leningrad - 'city of suffering and heroism'	p. 131
The Battle of Stalingrad - 'the Verdun of the Second World War'	p. 133
Kursk - 'the greatest tank battle in history'	p. 136
The Soviet Union under German occupation	p. 139
...Of collaboration and resistance	p. 141
The Soviet war economy	p. 142
The importance of foreign aid	p. 143
The Soviet Union's contribution to the final Allied victory	p. 144
Soviet foreign policy after 1945 - the Cold War	p. 147
Peace and the origins of the Cold War	p. 148
The Yalta and Potsdam conferences, 1945	p. 149
The Nuremburg trials	p. 153
Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe	p. 154
The Greek civil war	p. 156
The start of the Cold War	p. 157
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan	p. 158
Cominform - Comintern under another name?	p. 160
The fate of Czechoslovakia	p. 160
The Berlin blockade, 1948-9	p. 161
The Soviet Union becomes a nuclear power	p. 163
The atom spies	p. 163
The Soviet Union and the Korean War	p. 165
The final years of Stalin's rule	p. 166
Introduction	p. 167
Post-war reconstruction	p. 167
A return to Stalinist tyranny	p. 169
Years of 'hysterical isolationism'	p. 170
Zhdanov's purge of Soviet culture	p. 173
Conspiracies and a purge of the Party	p. 174
Again...what was happening to Stalin's own family?	p. 175
Stalin's seventieth birthday - the cult of personality gone beserk	p. 176
Stalinist anti-Semitism and the 'Doctors' Plot'	p. 177
The final days and death of Josif Stalin	p. 179
Stanlinist Russia - a postscript	p. 181
Stalin's death - the aftermath	p. 182
Khrushchev's speech at the Twentieth Party Conference	p. 182
De-Stalinization	p. 183
Stalin - some contrasting views	p. 185
Appendix 1	p. 187
Appendix 2	p. 188
Glossary	p. 191
Taking it further	p. 193
Index	p. 195
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