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The Soviet century
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Title
The Soviet century [electronic resource] / Moshe Lewin ; edited by Gregory Elliott.
ISBN
1844670163
Published
London ; New York : Verso, c2005.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 416 p.) ; 25 cm.
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Notes
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2008. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
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Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 28, 2020
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Stalin knows where he wants to get to
and is getting there
'Autonomization versus federation' (1922-3)
'Cadres into heretics'
The party and its apparaty
Social flux and 'systemic paranoia'
The impact of collectivization
Between legality and bacchanalia
How did Stalin rule?
The purges and their 'rationale'
The scale of the purges
The camps and the industrial empire of the NKVD
Endgame
An agrarian despotism?
'E pur, si muove!'
The KGB and the political opposition
The avalanche of urbanization
The 'administrators' : bruised but thriving
Some leaders
Kosygin and Andropov
Lenin's time and worlds
Backwardness and relapse
Modernity with a twist
Urbanization : successes and failures
Labour force and demography : a conundrum
The bureaucratic maze
'Telling the light from the shade'?
What was the Soviet system?
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