The Soviet century
The story of the Soviet Union is a complex one, and one that was for a long time inaccessible to western historians due to lack of documentation and ideologically motivated obfuscation, but it is one that Moshe Lewin is uniquely qualified to tell.
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2005
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Table of 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?