{"product_id":"the-soviet-union-a-documentary-history-volume-2-19391991-9780859897167","title":"The Soviet Union A Documentary History Volume 2","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume Two of this new documentary history of the Soviet Union comprises over 270 documents and is organised into four chronologically distinct parts, subdivided thematically;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs with the first volume the strengths of this book lie in two related things. The first is the width and variety of the sources...  The second outstanding strength is the quality and insight of the commentary which weaves its way between the selected sources…as in Volume 1, this volume cannot be faulted in this respect. The informative yet nuanced interpretative views which help link the sources together, tied in with suggestions for what recent literature is worth a further read on that topic, helps bring the reader right up-to-date with present thinking. To help keep things clear, the last 80 pages are general and place indexes, a very good biographical index and a list of all the sources in the book. All in all then, a wide-ranging set of documents and a perspicacious commentary of the final 50 years of a super-power, that we thought was indestructible. Well worth the read.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistory Teaching Review Year Book\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol. 21\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImpresses due to both the sheer volume and variety of documentation—all of which is interspersed with judicious historical commentary. Alternating well-chosen documents with balanced commentary and brief discussions (in footnotes) of relevant secondary sources. Finally, like Volume 1, Volume 2 also includes helpful sections, such as a glossary of Russian words and acronyms, a guide to further reading, a map section (including a map detailing the deportation of Soviet minorities under Stalin), and an excellent forty nine-page bibliographical index. To sum up, then, Volume 2 of The Soviet Union: A Documentary History is an excellent research or educational resource versatile enough to be used in-class either for supplementary primary source reading or as a textbook in its own right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael G. Stefany, \u003ci\u003eThe Russian Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol. 67, No. 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an excellent document collection. The intrinsic value of the documents is self-evident. Their arrangement and presentation offer a dramatic depiction of the course of later Soviet History.  ...this collection will be extremely useful in university courses, both at the introductory and more advances levels. I can think of no other single collection that can compare.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLynne Viola, \u003ci\u003eEuropean History Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, vol. 40.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImpresses due to both the sheer volume and variety of documentation—all of which is interspersed with judicious historical commentary. Alternating well-chosen documents with balanced commentary and brief discussions (in footnotes) of relevant secondary sources. Finally, like Volume 1, Volume 2 also includes helpful sections, such as a glossary of Russian words and acronyms, a guide to further reading, a map section (including a map detailing the deportation of Soviet minorities under Stalin), and an excellent forty nine-page bibliographical index. To sum up, then, Volume 2 of The Soviet Union: A Documentary History is an excellent research or educational resource versatile enough to be used in-class either for supplementary primary source reading or as a textbook in its own right.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMichael G. Stefany, \u003ci\u003eThe Russian Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol. 67, No. 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is not the first such collection, but it is perhaps one of the most successful and it does an excellent job of giving those who do not speak Russian “a taste of the intellectual feast that is underway” (p. xviii). One of the strengths of this volume is that it gives such extensive coverage to the war and late Soviet period. In addition to the documents, the editors provide lucid, clear explanations of the context in which the document was produced. This volume will appeal to the general reader interested in the discoveries made in the archives since the collapse of the Soviet Union, but it will also prove invaluable for teachers of Soviet history as a welcome and highly successful addition to the source material currently available in English. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiriam Dobson, \u003ci\u003eEHR\u003c\/i\u003e, cxxiii, 501\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNote on transliteration, Russian words and acronyms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlossary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart One: Dealing with Hitler, 1939-1941\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 The Nazi-Soviet Pact\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 The Winter War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 Military Reform and Buffer-Building Against Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 Stalin's Disastrous Miscalculation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Two: Invasion and the Great Patriotic War, 1941-45\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 Barbarossa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6 Allies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 Stiffening Soviet Resistance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8 The Siege of Leningrad\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9 The Germans Outside Moscow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 German Occupation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11 The Home Front, Legitimacy and the Economic War-Effort\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12 The Turning of the Tide: Stalingrad and Kursk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13 Expectations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14 Repression\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Three: Stabilization and Stagnation, 1945-1985\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15 The Cold War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16 The Command Economy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e17 The One-Party State\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e18 Marxism-Leninism and Dissent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Four: Crisis and Collapse, 1985-1991\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e19 The End of the Cold War and the \"Socialist Commonwealth\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e20 The End of the Command Economy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e21 Glasnost'\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e22 Democratization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e23 Nationalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 The Break-up of the USSR\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFull List of Documents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBiographical index\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSubject index\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359249006935,"sku":"9780859897167","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780859897167.jpg?v=1754124105","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-soviet-union-a-documentary-history-volume-2-19391991-9780859897167","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}