The Soviet Century

The Soviet Century - Paperback

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The Soviet Century
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The Soviet Century - Paperback

The Soviet Century - Paperback

by Moshe Lewin
$44.95
$44.95

Book Overview

This classic Soviet Union history traces the USSR from 1917 to its fall, offering "a master class in understanding the structures and intricate workings of the Soviet system" (Ian Kershaw, historian and Hitler biographer).

Today, the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary but tragic attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to write.

In The Soviet Century, Moshe Lewin follows this history in all its complexity, guiding us through the inner workings of a system which is still barely understood. In the process, he overturns widely held beliefs about the USSR's leaders, the State-Party system, and the powerful Soviet bureaucracy.

Departing from a simple linear history, The Soviet Century traces all the continuities and ruptures that led from the founding revolution of October 1917 to the final collapse of the late 1980s and early 1990s, passing through the Stalinist dictatorship, the impossible reforms of the Khrushchev years and the glasnost and perestroika policies of Gorbachev.
ISBN9781784780661
Author Moshe Lewin
PublisherVerso
GenreNews & politics and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2016
LanguageENG- English
Pages432
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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The Soviet Century

The Soviet Century - Paperback

The Soviet Century - Paperback

By Moshe Lewin

About Moshe Lewin

Moshe Lewin was a hugely respected historian of the Soviet Union. Professor of Soviet Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, his books include Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison and The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia.

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