The Soviet experiment
Subtitle: Russia, the USSR, and the successor states
By: Ronald Grigor Suny.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195340556
Subjects: Social change -- Soviet Union -- History; Soviet Union -- History; Soviet Union -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Crisis and revolution; title: The imperial legacy; title: The double revolution; title: Socialism and civil war; title: Nationalism and revolution; title: pt. 2. Retreat and rebuilding; title: Evolution of a dictatorship; title: Socialism in one country; title: NEP society; title: Culture wars; title: pt. 3. Stalinism; title: The Stalin revolution; title: Stalin's industrial revolution; title: Building Stalinism; title: Culture and society in the socialist motherland; title: Collective security and the Soviet state; title: The Great Fatherland War; title: The big chill : the Cold War begins; title: Late Stalinism at home and abroad; title: pt. 4. Reform and stagnation; title: From autocracy to oligarchy : Khrushchev and the politics of reform; title: The paradoxes of Brezhnev's long reign; title: pt. 5. Reform and revolution; title: Reform and the road to revolution; title: The second Russian republic and the "near abroad."