The Soviet century / Moshe Lewin ; edited by Gregory Elliott.

Author/creator Lewin, Moshe
Other author Elliott, Gregory.
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Verso,
Descriptionix, 416 p. ; 25 cm.
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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?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2004015478
ISBN1844670163 (cloth : alk. paper)

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