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" The rise and fall of the Soviet Union / "
Martin McCauley
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BL
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631604
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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McCauley, Martin
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| Title & Author
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The rise and fall of the Soviet Union /\ Martin McCauley
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| Publication Statement
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Harlow, England ;New York :: Longman,, 2008
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xxix, 522 p. :: ill., maps ;; 24 cm
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9780582784659 (pbk.)
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: 0582784654 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [492]-501) and index
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| Contents
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Ave atque vale -- 1917: days of hope and days of despair -- Soviet power, terror and civil war -- Muslims and others and revolution -- Women and revolution -- The new economic policy -- Diplomats and spies -- Society and culture -- Collectivisation: turning private peasants into state peasants -- Industrialisation -- Terror and the gulag -- State and society -- Pursuing peace and preparing for war -- Total war -- The onset of the Cold War -- High Stalinism -- Bolshevik speak -- Stalin, Hitler and Mao -- The Khruschev era -- The Brezhenev era -- The Gorbachev era -- Strengths and weaknesses of the Societ system -- Russia reborn
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| Abstract
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"The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union examines the strengths, weaknesses, and contradictions of the first Marxist state, and reassesses the role of power, authority and legitimacy in Soviet politics. Including first-person accounts, anecdotes, illustrations and diagrams to illustrate key concepts, McCauley provides a seminal history of this twentieth-century Superpower."--BOOK JACKET
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Soviet Union, History
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Soviet Union, Politics and government
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DK266.M353 2008
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