The Soviet Colossus: Rise and Fall of the USSR - Softcover

Kort, Michael

 
9780873326766: The Soviet Colossus: Rise and Fall of the USSR
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0873326768 ISBN 13: 9780873326766
Verlag: Routledge, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

"The Soviet Colossus" is an introduction to 20th-century Soviet history within the context of Russian history as a whole. Kort begins by showing how and why the Tsars developed powerful centralised institutions that undermined the political, civil and economic freedoms of the Russian people. He then goes on to explain how the Bolsheviks' attempt to build socialism in a backward country produced the strong centralised bureaucracy that was characteristic of the Soviet Union. The post-Stalin years of half-way reforms are surveyed for new insights. In the concluding chapters Kort discusses Gorbachev's place in the continuum of Russian and Soviet history, and his role in unleashing the force that finally toppled the Soviet colossus.

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"The Soviet Colossus" is an introduction to 20th-century Soviet history within the context of Russian history as a whole. Kort begins by showing how and why the Tsars developed powerful centralised institutions that undermined the political, civil and economic freedoms of the Russian people. He then goes on to explain how the Bolsheviks' attempt to build socialism in a backward country produced the strong centralised bureaucracy that was characteristic of the Soviet Union. The post-Stalin years of half-way reforms are surveyed for new insights. In the concluding chapters Kort discusses Gorbachev's place in the continuum of Russian and Soviet history, and his role in unleashing the force that finally toppled the Soviet colossus.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0873326768
ISBN 13 
9780873326766
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
3
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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