The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: 10 (Studies in Contemporary History) - Softcover

Pearson, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333948076 ISBN 13: 9780333948071

Verlag: Palgrave, 2002

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Raymond Pearson describes and explains the creation, maintenance, and eventual demise of the Soviet regime across post-1945 Eastern Europe, setting the so-called "Soviet Empire" within the broader context of global imperialism and decolonization. This revised and updated second edition features an expanded final chapter, more detailed analysis of key themes and events, and an extended bibliography. New documentation has also been incorporated to provide a fuller historical account of what may prove to be the 'Last Empire'.

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RAYMOND PEARSON is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Ulster. He has written widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia and Eastern Europe.

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The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire describes and explains the creation, maintenance and eventual demise of the Soviet regime across post-1945 Eastern Europe. Balancing internal factors such as resilient nationalism against external factors such as America's acceleration of the arms race, Raymond Pearson sets the so-called 'Soviet Empire' within the broader context of global imperialism and decolonisation. Full coverage is also given to the dramatic episodes of Eastern Europe dissent and the chequered career of the ostensibly monolithic 'Soviet Empire'.

This revised and updated second edition features an expanded final chapter on the 'Last Empire', assessing not only its patent strengths and hidden weaknesses, but also its much publicised vices and rarely acknowledged virtues. New documentation that has only become available in the last five years has been incorporated to provide a fuller retrospective historical judgement on the Soviet regime across Eastern Europe.

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• Verlag: Palgrave
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0333948076
• ISBN 13: 9780333948071
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236
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