Peter Kenez (Santa Cruz University of California)

A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to Its Legacy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This accessible textbook examines political, social, and cultural developments in the Soviet Union - from the revolution, through the years of the New Economic Policies, and into the Stalinist order and the post-Soviet period. The third edition includes substantial new material, discussing the challenges Russia faces in the era of Putin.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 3 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781316506233
• ISBN-10: 1316506231
• Artikelnr.: 46459633

Autorenporträt

Peter Kenez is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Coming of the Holocaust: From Antisemitism to Genocide (Cambridge, 2013) and Hungary from the Nazis to the Soviets: The Establishment of the Communist Regime in Hungary, 1944-1948 (Cambridge, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The revolution, 1917-21
3. New Economic Policies, 1921-9
4. The first five-year plan
5. High Stalinism
6. A great and patriotic war
7. The nadir: 1945-53
8. The age of Khrushchev
9. Real, existing socialism
10. Failed reforms
11. Leap into the unknown
12. Illiberal democracy
13. Putin returns.