An edition of Mastering twentieth century Russian history
(2002)
Mastering twentieth century Russian history
by Norman Lowe
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Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: Russia in the twentieth century 1
1.1 An overview of Russian history in the twentieth century 1
1.2 The writing of Russian history 4
Notes 9
2 Russia before the First World War 10
Summary of events 10
2.1 Russian government and society before 1905 11
2.2 Revolutionary ideas and parties 24
2.3 The revolution of 1905 32
2.4 Russian agriculture in 1914 - how backward was it? 37
2.5 Russian industry in 1914-how'modern'was it? 41
2.6 The political system after 1905 - the Duma experiment 44
2.7 Was the collapse of Tsarism inevitable by 1914? 49
Documents 55
Notes 61
3 The First World War and the collapse of Tsarism, 1914-17 62
Summary of events 62
3.1 Russia's foreign relations and the approach of war 65
3.2 The war and its impact on the Tsarist system 75
Documents 86
Notes 90
4 The failure of the Provisional Government and the Bolshevik
seizure of power, February-October 1917 92
Summary of events 92
4.1 The failure of the Provisional Government 94
4.2 The Bolshevik seizure of power - October 1917 105
4.3 Coup or mass insurrection? 108
Documents 114
Notes 118
5 Lenin and the Bolsheviks in power, 1917-24 119
Summary of events 119
5.1 The political situation - the Constituent Assembly 124
5.2 Land and economic problems 128
5.3 Russia withdraws from the First World War 132
5.4 The drift towards violence 136
5.5 The Civil War 141
5.6 The New Economic Policy (NEP) 154
5.7 Foreign affairs and the Communist International 164
5.8 Russia, government, nationalities and the 1922 constitution 166
5.9 Education, culture, the arts and religion under the Bolsheviks 174
5.10 Assessments of Lenin 180
Documents 186
Notes 191
6 Stalin in control - Russia transformed 193
Summary of events 193
6.1 Trotsky or Stalin? The struggle for power after Lenin's death 195
6.2 The end of the New Economic Policy: why was it abandoned? 203
6.3 The collectivization of agriculture 207
6.4 Industry and the Five-Year Plans 218
6.5 Politics and the Purges 230
6.6 Everyday life and culture under Stalin 244
Documents 258
Notes 263
7 The Great Patriotic War and Stalin's Last Years, 1941-53 267
Summary of events 267
7.1 Foreign relations and the background to war 269
7.2 The USSR at war, 1941-45 282
7.3 The aftermath of the war and Stalin's final years, 1945-53 310
7.4 The beginnings of the Cold War 316
7.5 Assessments of Stalin 329
Documents 334
Notes 340
8 The Khrushchev era and de-Stalinization, 1953-64 342
Summary of events 342
8.1 The rise of Khrushchev and the attack on Stalin, 1953-57 343
8.2 Problems and new policies 352
8.3 Foreign affairs: co-existence and the Cold War 361
8.4 Downfall and assessment of Khrushchev 369
Documents 373
Notes 375
9 The Brezhnev years - the USSR stagnates, 1964-85 377
Summary of events 377
9.1 Personnel and policies 378
9.2 Everyday life, dissent and opposition 383
9.3 Brezhnev and eastern Europe 387
9.4 Foreign affairs and detente 389
9.5 The end of an era 392
Documents 396
Notes 399
10 Gorbachev and the end of the Soviet Union, 1985-91 401
Summary of events 401
10.1 The struggle for reform 403
10.2 Foreign affairs - the end of the Cold War 409
10.3 The end of communism in eastern Europe 412
10.4 Gorbachev runs into problems 417
10.5 The USSR disintegrates 424
10.6 Assessments of Gorbachev 438
Documents 446
Notes 451
11 Russia underYeltsin, 1991-99 453
Summary of events 453
11.1 Economic catastrophe and political crisis, 1992-93 454
11.2 The end of 'market romanticism' 463
11.3 Yeltsin's second term, 1996-99 468
Documents 474
Notes 477.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-484) and index.
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