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Author Lewin, Moshe, 1921-

Title The Soviet century [electronic resource] / Moshe Lewin ; edited by Gregory Elliott.

Imprint London ; New York : Verso, c2005.

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description ix, 416 p. ; 25 cm.
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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?
Reproduction 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.
Subject Soviet Union -- History.
Added Author Elliott, Gregory.
American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 1844670163
Standard No. 2027/heb05271 hdl

 
    
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