num_pages: 194
description: This interpretive essay puts the rise and fall of the Soviet system into global perspective and offers the most inclusive overview available of the course of events from the collapse of the tsarist regime to the dissolution under Gorbachev of the empire built by tsars and soviets. @CONTENTSBEG
language: English
title: Why Lenin? Why Stalin? Why Gorbachev?: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet System
titlecomplete: Why Lenin? Why Stalin? Why Gorbachev?: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet System
genres: College, Russian History, History, Sociology, Russia, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 86
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers