556 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 514-536) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The October Revolution -- 3. War communism -- 4. The making of the Soviet Union -- 5. The new economic policy and its political dilemmas -- 6. Revolution from above -- 7. Stalin's terror -- 8. Stalinist society -- 9. Religion and nationality under the Soviet state -- 10. The Great Fatherland War -- 11. The last years of Stalin -- 12. Khrushchev and de-Stalinization -- 13. Soviet society under "developed socialism" -- 14. Religion, nationality and dissent -- 15. The Soviet Union in the 1980s: an impasse and its causes -- Chronology -- Statistical tables.
