David Evans

Understand Stalin's Russia

Teach Yourself

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The perfect way to get to grips with the great historical events." - The History Channel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 131mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 182g
• ISBN-13: 9781444157567
• ISBN-10: 1444157566
• Artikelnr.: 34423848

Autorenporträt

David Evans is an established writer and lecturer. He has written over twenty books on modern European history, and appears regularly on television and radio

Inhaltsangabe

1. : Introduction
2. : 1. Russia at the time of Stalin's birth
3. : 2. Towards revolution
4. : The Russia into which Stalin was born
5.
* : The condition of Russia in 1879 (the year of Stalin's birth)
6. : 3. Civil war, the death of Lenin and the power struggle
7. : 4. The collectivization of agriculture
8.
* : The church, class structure and the autocratic rule of the Romanovs
* : The condition of the Russian people
9. : 5. The Five-Year Plans
10. : 6. From Marxism-Leninism to Stalinism
11.
* : The development of a revolutionary tradition
12. : Towards revolution and civil war
13. : 7. Stalin's terror
14. : 8. Everyday life in Stalin's Russia
15.
* : Political parties and revolutionary groups
* : Tsarism under threat: The reasons for its survival and recovery
16. : 9. Soviet foreign policy, 1918-40
17. : 10. The Great Patriotic War, 1941-5
18.
* : The age of the dumas
* : Russia's involvement in the First World War and its consequences
19. : 11. Soviet foreign policy after 1945 - The Cold War
20. : 12. The final years of Stalin's rule
21.
* : Background to the revolutions of 1917
* : The failure of the Provisional Government and the coming of civil
war
22. : 13. Stalinist Russia - a postscript
23.
* : The end of the Romanovs
24. : The death of Lenin and the power struggle
25.
* : The significance and aftermath of Lenin's death
* : The power struggle - Stalin versus Trotsky
* : The stages of the power stuggle
* : The reasons for Stalin's success
* : Collectivization and Five Year Plans - Stalin's economic policies
* : Lenin's new economic policy abandoned
* : The process of the collectivization of agriculture
* : The fate of the kulaks
* : Collectivization - success or failure?
* : The industrialization of Russia - Five Year Plans
* : Five Year Planning - success or failure?
* : The impact of Stalin's economic policies on the Russian people
26. : Stalin's Russia
27.
* : The meaning of Stalinism
* : The new constitution of 1936
* : The education system and youth movements
* : Zhenotdel and the role of women in Soviet society
* : Stalin's policy regarding the Church and religion
* : The arts and a cultural revolution
28. : The terror and the purges
29.
* : Various episodes - the Shakhty trials, the Riutin affair and the
assassination of Sergei Kirov
* : Purges, show trials and their victims
* : The roles of Vyshinsky and Beria
* : The assassination of Trotsky
30. : Stalin's foreign policy
31.
* : Attitudes to Russia after the First World War
* : The Third International and the Communist International - Comintern
* : Soviet diplomacy in the 1920s
* : Relations with other world powers and involvement in the Far East
* : The Anti-Comintern Pact and Stalin's search for collective security
* : Involvement in the Spansih Civil War
* : Soviet attitude to the Czech crisis of 1938
* : The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, 1939 and its purpose
* : 'The Winter War' against Finland
32. : 'The Great Patriotic War' - the Soviet Union and the Second World War
33.
* : 'Operation Barbarossa'
* : Reasons for Hitler's decision to invade the Soviet Union in 1941
* : The treatment of the Soviet people during the years of German
occupation
* : Collaboration and resistance
* : The course of the war
* : The significant battles and turning points of the war
* : An estimate of Stalin as a wartime leader
* : The Soviet contribution to the final Allied victory
34. : Soviet foreign policy and the coming of the Cold War
35.
* : Post-war conferences, Yalta and Potsdam
* : The division of German and the Soviet Union's territorial gains
* : The collapse of the wartime alliance
* : The imposition of Communist rule over Eastern Europe
* : The 'iron curtain' and the impact of the Truman Doctrine and
Marshall Plan
* : Berlin (1948) and other crises in East-West relations
* : The Soviet Union becomes a nuclear power
36. : The final years of Stalin's rule
37.
* : Post-war reconstruction in the Soviet Union
* : Stalinist tyranny intensifies
* : Zhdanovism and the purge of Soviet culture
* : Stalin's 'cult of personality'
* : Anti-Semitism and the 'Doctor's Plot'
* : An end of an era - the death of Josef Stalin