{"product_id":"understand-stalins-russia-teach-yourself-9781444157567","title":"Understand Stalins Russia Teach Yourself","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eUnderstand Stalin''s Russia is a compelling introduction to a man and a nation long enveloped in mystery. It covers all aspects of this fascinating history, from the shadows of Tsarism and the legacy of Lenin, to the implications of Stalin''s rule - including the horrific effects of the five-year plans, and the heroic but costly triumph in the Great Patriotic War.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Introduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: 1. Russia at the time of Stalin's birth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: 2. Towards revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The Russia into which Stalin was born\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e: The condition of Russia in 1879 (the year of Stalin's birth)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: 3. Civil war, the death of Lenin and the power struggle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: 4. The collectivization of agriculture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The church, class structure and the autocratic rule of the Romanovs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The condition of the Russian people\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: 5. The Five-Year Plans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: 6. From Marxism-Leninism to Stalinism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e: The development of a revolutionary tradition\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Towards revolution and civil war\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: 7. Stalin's terror\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: 8. Everyday life in Stalin's Russia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Political parties and revolutionary groups\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Tsarism under threat: The reasons for its survival and recovery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: 9. Soviet foreign policy, 1918-40\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: 10. The Great Patriotic War, 1941-5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The age of the dumas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Russia's involvement in the First World War and its consequences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: 11. Soviet foreign policy after 1945 - The Cold War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: 12. The final years of Stalin's rule\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Background to the revolutions of 1917\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The failure of the Provisional Government and the coming of civil war\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: 13. Stalinist Russia - a postscript\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e: The end of the Romanovs\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The death of Lenin and the power struggle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The significance and aftermath of Lenin's death\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The power struggle - Stalin versus Trotsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The stages of the power stuggle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The reasons for Stalin's success\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Collectivization and Five Year Plans - Stalin's economic policies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Lenin's new economic policy abandoned\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The process of the collectivization of agriculture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The fate of the kulaks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Collectivization - success or failure?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The industrialization of Russia - Five Year Plans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Five Year Planning - success or failure?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The impact of Stalin's economic policies on the Russian people\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Stalin's Russia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The meaning of Stalinism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The new constitution of 1936\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The education system and youth movements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Zhenotdel and the role of women in Soviet society\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Stalin's policy regarding the Church and religion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The arts and a cultural revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The terror and the purges\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Various episodes - the Shakhty trials, the Riutin affair and the assassination of Sergei Kirov\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Purges, show trials and their victims\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The roles of Vyshinsky and Beria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The assassination of Trotsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Stalin's foreign policy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Attitudes to Russia after the First World War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The Third International and the Communist International - Comintern\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Soviet diplomacy in the 1920s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Relations with other world powers and involvement in the Far East\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The Anti-Comintern Pact and Stalin's search for collective security\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Involvement in the Spansih Civil War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Soviet attitude to the Czech crisis of 1938\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, 1939 and its purpose\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: 'The Winter War' against Finland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: 'The Great Patriotic War' - the Soviet Union and the Second World War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: 'Operation Barbarossa'\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Reasons for Hitler's decision to invade the Soviet Union in 1941\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The treatment of the Soviet people during the years of German occupation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Collaboration and resistance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The course of the war\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The significant battles and turning points of the war\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: An estimate of Stalin as a wartime leader\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The Soviet contribution to the final Allied victory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Soviet foreign policy and the coming of the Cold War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Post-war conferences, Yalta and Potsdam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The division of German and the Soviet Union's territorial gains\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The collapse of the wartime alliance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The imposition of Communist rule over Eastern Europe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The 'iron curtain' and the impact of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Berlin (1948) and other crises in East-West relations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The Soviet Union becomes a nuclear power\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: The final years of Stalin's rule\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Post-war reconstruction in the Soviet Union\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Stalinist tyranny intensifies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Zhdanovism and the purge of Soviet culture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Stalin's 'cult of personality'\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: Anti-Semitism and the 'Doctor's Plot'\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e: An end of an era - 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