Our Book Is a New Edition of a History of Twentieth-Century Russia; We Changed Title to a History of Modern Russia

Name: Our Book Is a New Edition of a History of Twentieth-Century Russia; We Changed Title to a History of Modern Russia
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ISBN: 9780674018013

ISBN-10: 067401801X

ISBN-13: 9780674018013

Edition: 2nd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Robert Service

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Russia had an extraordinary twentieth century, undergoing upheaval and transformation. Updating his acclaimed History of Twentieth-Century Russia through 2002, Robert Service provides a panoramic perspective on a country whose Soviet past encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror, and two world wars. He shows how seven decades of communist rule, which penetrated every aspect of Soviet life, continue to influence Russia today. This new edition also discusses continuing economic and social difficulties at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the military campaign in Chechnya, and Russia's reduced role on the world stage."A fine book ... It is a dizzying tale and Service tells it…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 704
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.75" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Robert Service was born on October 29, 1947. He received an MA in modern languages from the University of Cambridge and an MA and a PhD in government from the University of Essex. He is a Russian historian and political commentator. He has written numerous books including Comrades: A World History of Communism; Stalin: A Biography, Lenin: A Biography, and Spies and Commissars. He received the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize for Trotsky: A Biography.



Acknowledgments


A Note on Transliteration


Maps


The Russian Empire in 1900


The Soviet Union, 1924-1936


The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe after 1945


The Commonwealth of Independent States in 1997


The Russian Federation in 1997


Introduction


And Russia? 1900-1914


The Fall of the Romanovs 1914-1917





Conflicts and Crises 1917


The October Revolution 1917-1918


New World, Old World


Civil Wars 1918-1921


The New Economic Policy 1921-1928


Leninism and its Discontents 150





The First Five-Year Plan 1928-1932


Fortresses under Storm: Culture, Religion, Nation


Terror upon Terror 1934-1938


Coping with Big Brothers


The Second World War 1939-1945


Coda


Suffering and Struggle 1941-1945





The Hammers of Peace 1945-1953


The Despot and his Masks


'De-Stalinization' 1953-1961


Hopes Unsettled 1961-1964


Stabilization 1964-1970





'Developed Socialism' 1970-1982


Privilege and Alienation


Towards Reform 1982-1985


Glasnost and Perestroika 1986-1988


Imploding Imperium 1989


Hail and Farewell 1990-1991


Power and the Market 1992-1993


And Russia? 1994-2002


Afterword: Past and Prospects


Notes


Bibliography


Index