Bruce Adams

Tiny Revolutions in Russia

Twentieth Century Soviet and Russian History in Anecdotes and Jokes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting a large collection of anecdotes and jokes from different periods of the twentieth century, this book provides an unusual and original perspective on Soviet and Russian history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9780415351737
• ISBN-10: 0415351731
• Artikelnr.: 21670495

Autorenporträt

Bruce Adams is professor of Russian history at the University of Louisville. His previous book was The Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia, 1863-1917. His current research concerns the re-emigration of Russian and Soviet citizens from China to the Soviet Union between the 1920s and the 1960s.
Bruce Adams, University of Louisville, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Lenin 2. Stalin 3. Khrushchev 4. Brezhnev 5. Andropov and Chernenko 6. Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin Index

Rezensionen

'The book's unusually broad appeal ultimately works to its advantage and whoever reads it will undoubtedly discover that Russian history can be fun.' - Andrei Rogachevskii, Revolutionary Russia

'The book's unusually broad appeal ultimately works to its advantage and whoever reads it will undoubtedly discover that Russian history can be fun.' - Andrei Rogachevskii, Revolutionary Russia