The Soviet Century - Hardcover

Lewin, Moshe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844670163 ISBN 13: 9781844670161

Verlag: Verso Books, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

The USSR may no longer exist, but its history remainshighly relevant-perhaps today more so than ever. Yet it is a history which fora long time proved impossible to write, not simply due to the lack ofaccessible documentation, but also because it lay at the heart of anideological confrontation which obscured the reality of the Soviet regime. InThe Soviet Century, Moshe Lewin traces this history in all its complexity,drawing widely upon archive material previously unavailable. Highlighting keyfactors such as demography, economics, culture and political repression, Lewinguides us through the inner workings of a system which is still barelyunderstood. In the process he overturns widely held beliefs about the USSR'sleaders, the State-Party system and the Soviet bureaucracy, the "tentacledoctopus" which held the real power. Departing from a simple linear history, TheSoviet Century takes in all the continuities and ruptures that led, via acomplex route, from the founding revolution of October 1917 to the finalcollapse of the late 1980s and early 1990s, passing through the Stalinistdictatorship and the impossible reforms of the Khrushchev years.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Moshe Lewin was a hugely respected historian of the Soviet Union. Professor of Soviet Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, his books include Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison and The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia.

Gregory Elliott is a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and author of Althusser: The Detour of Theory and Labourism and the English Genius: The Strange Decay of Labour England?.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1844670163
• ISBN 13: 9781844670161
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 407
• Herausgeber: Elliott Gregory
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