num_pages: 263
description: This collection presents views on key aspects of Russian/Soviet history such as the non-Slavic sources of Russian statehood; tsarist penal systems; the pre-evolutionary technological level; the famine of 1931-3; patronage practices in Stalin's Russia; and the fall of the Soviet Union.
language: English
title: Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan