The Making and Breaking of the Soviet System

Christopher Read

ISBN 10: 0333731530 / ISBN 13: 9780333731536

Verlag: MacMillan, 2001

Beschreibung

pp. 269.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 261787819

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Making and Breaking of the Soviet System
• Verlag: MacMillan
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0333731530
• ISBN-13: 9780333731536
• Bindung: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

Drawing on a wide range of post-Soviet materials, Christopher Read examines the reasons for the successes and failures of the Soviet system. He argues that the underlying reasons for the system's collapse can be found in the contradictions of the revolution which gave birth to it. The consequences are traced from Stalin to Gorbachev's doomed attempt to transform the Soviet system. Particular attention is given to the divergence between the aspirations of the leadership and the social evolution of ordinary Russians.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

CHRISTOPHER READ is Reader in History at Warwick University.