A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End
Peter Kenez (2006)
A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End
Peter Kenez (2006)
1. Introduction
2.0 The revolution, 1917-1921
2.1 The February Revolution
2.2 Dual power
2.3 Problems facing the provisional government
2.4 The Bolsheviks and the workers
2.5 The October Revolution
2.6 The course of the civil war
2.7 The causes of Bolshevik victory
3.0 New Economic Policies, 1921–1929
3.1 The consequences of the revolution
3.2 The introduction of the new economic policies
3.3 The political system
3.4 The Birth of the Soviet Union
3.5 Economics and society
3.6 Bolshevik cultural policies
3.7 Social institutions: the family, the church, and the schools
3.8 The struggle for power
4.0 The first five-year plan
4.1 The disintegration of the nep system and the search for new solutions
4.2 Collectivization
4.3 Industrialization
4.4 The creation of an urban labor force
4.5 Collectivized agriculture
4.6 “A cultural revolution”
5.0 High Stalinism
5.1 Terror
5.2 Terror and progress
5.3 Terror and society
5.4 Terror and ideology
5.5 The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
6.0 A great and patriotic war
6.1 1939–1941
6.2 War
6.3 The soviet people and the war
6.4 Wartime diplomacy
7.0 The nadir: 1945–1953
7.1 The origins of the cold war
7.2 Devastation and reconstruction
7.3 Political culture
7.4 The politics of culture
8.0 The age of Khrushchev
8.1 Khrushchev’s victory
8.2 De-stalinization
8.3 Agricolture
8.4 Industry
8.5 Foreign relations
8.6 Khrushchev’s defeat
9.0 Real, existing socialism
9.1 Politics
9.2 The economy
9.3 Dissent
9.4 Nationalities
9.5 The Soviet paradox
10.0 Failed reforms
10.1 Interregnum
10.2 “Acceleration”
10.3 Glasnost
10.4 Perestroika
10.5 The collapse of the outer defenses of the empire
10.6 August 1991
10.7 The last days of the union
11.0 Leap into the unknown
11.1 Shock therapy
11.2 A new constitution
11.3 Misery
11.4 The end of the Yeltsin era
11.5 Chechnya
11.6 Putin
12.0 Afterthoughts, 2005
Chronology until 1945
Cronology after 1945
Soviet history: a bibliography
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