A history of modern Russia : from Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin
Russia had an extraordinary twentieth century, undergoing upheaval and transformation. Updating his acclaimed "History of Twentieth-Century Russia through 2002, Robert Service provides a panoramic perspective on a country whose Soviet past encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror, and two world wars. He shows how seven decades of communist rule, which penetrated every aspect of Soviet life, continue to influence Russia today. This new edition also discusses continuing economic and social difficulties at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the military campaign in Chechnya, and Russia's reduced role on the world stage
Print Book, English, 2005
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005
History
xxxvii, 658 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
9780674018013, 067401801X
224372626
1. And Russia? 1900-1914
2. The fall of the Romanovs 1914-1917
3. Conflicts and crises 1917
4. The October Revolution 1917-1918
5. New world, old world
6. Civil wars 1918-1921
7. The new economic policy 1921-1928
8. Leninism and its discontents
9. The first five-year plan 1928-1932
10. Fortresses under storm : culture, religion, nation
11. Terror upon terror 1934-1938
12. Coping with big brothers
13. The Second World War 1939-1945
14. Suffering and struggle 1941-1945
15. The hammers of peace 1945-1953
16. The despot and his masks
17. 'De-Stalinization' 1953-1961
18. Hopes unsettled 1961-1964
19. Stabilization 1964-1970
20. 'Developed socialism' 1970-1982
21. Privilege and alienation
22. Towards reform 1982-1985
23. Glasnost and Perestroika 1986-1988
24. Imploding Imperium 1989
25. Hail and farewell 1990-1991
26. Power and the market 1992-1993
27. And Russia? 1994-2002
Afterword : past and prospects