Twentieth century Russia reader / edited by Alastair Kocho-Williams.

Contributor(s):

Kocho-Williams, Alastair

Language: English Series: Routledge readers in history | Routledge readers in historyPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge , 2011.Description: x, 353 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

978-0-415-58309-1

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Contents:

The problem of social stability in urban Russia, 1905-1917 / Leopold Haimson -- Autocracy in crisis : Nicholas the last / Sarah Badcock -- Russia, Europe and World War I / Dominic Lieven -- The three traditions and revisionism / Edward Acton -- The Russian Revolution : broadening understandings of 1917 / Sarah Badcock -- Revision and retreat in the historiography of 1917 : social history and its critics / Ronald Grigor Suny -- Violent Russia, deadly Marxism : Russia in the epoch of violence / Peter Holquist -- The civil war as a formative experience / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Stalinism and the Stalin period after the "archival revolution" / Oleg Khlevniuk -- The great terror : suicide or murder? / E A Rees -- Speaking out : languages of affirmation and dissent in Stalinist / Jochen Hellbeck -- Speaking Bolshevik / Stephen Kotkin -- Soviet security policy in the 1930s / Teddy Uldricks.Patriotic War, 1941 to 1945 / Mark Harrison and John Barber -- Russian archival revelations and our understanding of the Cold War / Jonathan Haslam -- Bruce Menning a decade half-full : post-Cold War studies in Russian and Soviet military history / Bruce Menning -- The 'new Soviet man' turns pessimist / John Bushnell -- Soviet dissent under Krushchev / Robert Cutler -- The material existence of Soviet Samizdat / Ann Komaromi -- Brezhnev reconsidered / Edwin Bacon and Mark Sandle -- The national question, the coup and the collapse of the Soviet Union / Archie Brown -- Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War : perspectives on history and personality / Vladislav Zubok -- Comrades into citizens? : Russian political culture and public support for the transition / Donna Bahry -- Overcoming the Yeltsin legacy / Eugene Huskey.

Summary: The twentieth century was, for Russia, one of the most challenging in its history. the country experienced war, revolution and systemic collapse, all of which brought serious challenges especially in international affairs. Only by examining the whole century can Modern Russia be properly understood and key questions as to the impact of war, revolution, collapse, the Cold War ad Russia's post-Soviet development be addressed.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Monografías	Biblioteca Central del MAEC Depósito	45749	Available		1054958

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The twentieth century was, for Russia, one of the most challenging in its history. the country experienced war, revolution and systemic collapse, all of which brought serious challenges especially in international affairs. Only by examining the whole century can Modern Russia be properly understood and key questions as to the impact of war, revolution, collapse, the Cold War ad Russia's post-Soviet development be addressed.