Edward Acton

Russia

The Tsarist and Soviet Legacy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A vigorous and popular survey of the whole sweep of Russian history to explain Russia, and the Russians, of today. Within a broad chronological framework, this textbook concentrates on a number of key themes that are central to that understanding, including the late imperial and Soviet periods, the end of the USSR, and the travails of post-Soviet Russia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9781138140721
• ISBN-10: 1138140724
• Artikelnr.: 69946409

Autorenporträt

Edward Acton

Inhaltsangabe

1. The origins of the Russian empire 2. The genesis of Russian absolutism
3. The prime of the empire 4. The great reforms and the development of the
revolutionary intelligentsia 5. Industrialisation and revolution 6. The end
of the Russian empire 7. 1917 8. Civil War and the consolidation of
Bolshevik power 9. Stalin's revolution from above 10. World war and cold
war 11. Stabilisation under Khrushchev and Brezhnev 12. Stagnation and
decline 13. Perestroika and the fall of the Soviet Union.14. Epilogue