The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
Richard Sakwa (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK)
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
Richard Sakwa (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK)
Drawing on a range of sources, including passionate eye-witness accounts, official documents and newly available materials, this book places the Soviet experience in a historical and globally comparative context. It examines: the emergence of Marxism-Leninism; the revolutions of 1917, the consolidation of Bolshevik power and Lenin’s legacy; Stalinism and the new economic policy; collectivization and industrialization; the great terror; World War II and the Cold War; reform and stagnation under Kruschev, Brezhnev and Andropov; and Glasnost, Perestroika and the end of the USSR.
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