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Book SynopsisThe third volume of The Cambridge History of Russia provides an authoritative political, intellectual, social and cultural history of the trials and triumphs of Russia and the Soviet Union during the twentieth century. It encompasses not only the ethnically Russian part of the country but also the non-Russian peoples of the tsarist and Soviet multinational states and of the post-Soviet republics. Beginning with the revolutions of the early twentieth century, chapters move through the 1920s to the Stalinist 1930s, World War II, the post-Stalin years and the decline and collapse of the USSR. The contributors attempt to go beyond the divisions that marred the historiography of the USSR during the Cold War to look for new syntheses and understandings. The volume is also the first major undertaking by historians and political scientists to use the new primary and archival sources that have become available since the break-up of the USSR.
Trade Review'The essays in the volume together provide one of the most comprehensive accounts of Russia's most turbulent century and will stand the test of time.' Europe-Asia Studies
'The new Cambridge History of Russia is an outstanding scholarly resource, and a brilliant example of the capacities and constraints of its format. … this volume on the twentieth century, like its companion volumes, is an impressive and authoritative work. It can be savoured by experts, and its various introductory treatments can be strongly recommended to undergraduates and MA students.' The Slavonic and East European Review
Table of Contents1. Reading Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century Ronald Grigor Suny; 2. Russia's fin de siècle, 1900–14 Mark D. Steinberg; 3. World War I, 1914–18 Mark von Hagen; 4. The Revolutions of 1917–18 S. A. Smith; 5. The Russian civil war, 1917–22 Donald J. Raleigh; 6. Building a new state and society: NEP, 1921–8 Alan Ball; 7. Stalinism, 1928–40 David R. Shearer; 8. Patriotic war, 1941 to 1945 John Barber and Mark Harrison; 9. Stalin and his circle Oleg Khlevniuk and Yoram Gorlizki; 10. The Khrushchev period, 1953–64 William Taubman; 11. The Brezhnev era Stephen E. Hanson; 12. The Gorbachev era Archie Brown; 13. The Russian Republic. Michael McFaul; 14. Economic and demographic change: Russia's age of economic extremes Peter Gatrell; 15. Transforming peasants in the twentieth century: dilemmas of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet development Esther Kingston-Mann; 16. Workers and industrialization Lewis H. Siegelbaum; 17. Women and the Soviet state Barbara Engel; 18. Non-Russians in the Soviet Union and after Jeremy Smith; 19. The western republics: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and the Baltics Serhy Yekelchyk; 20. Science, technology, and the intelligentsia David Holloway; 21. Culture, 1900–45 James von Geldern; 22. The politics of culture, 1945–2000 Josephine Woll; 23. Comitern and Soviet foreign policy, 1919–41 Jonathan Haslam; 24. Moscow's foreign policy, 1945–2000: identities, institutions, and interests Ted Hopf; 25. The Soviet Union and the road to communism Lars T. Lih.
