Title: Twentieth century Russia reader /
Authors: Kocho-Williams, Alastair.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Soviet Union History.; Russia (Federation) History
Abstract: 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. 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 and Russia's post-Soviet development be addressed. This book contains key articles on history and politics from across the period; from the last Tsar, the Russian Revolution, the Soviet Union and the Second World War, right up to the post-Soviet period.
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.