The Soviet Union 1917-1991 / Edition 2

by Martin Mccauley

Overview

A second edition of this famous survey has been eagerly awaited. When the first edition appeared Brezhnev was still in power, Gorbachev did not make it to the index, and the USSR was a superpower. Today the Soviet experiment is over and the USSR no longer exists. How? Why? Martin McCauley has reworked and greatly expanded his book to answer these questions, and to provide a complete account of the Soviet years. Essential reading to an appreciation of recent history — and to a better understanding of whatever happens next.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780582013230
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/04/1993
Series:	Longman History of Russia
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1200L (what's this?)

About the Author

Martin McCauley is former Senior Lecturer in Politics at the School of Slavonicand East European Studies, University College, University of London. His previous publications include Stalin and Stalinism (2003), Bandits, Gangsters and the Mafia: Russia, the Baltic States and the CIS Since 1991 (2001) and Gorbachev (2000).

Table of Contents

Glossary. Introduction. 1. Revolution. 2. The New Economic Policy. 3. The Thirties. 4. The Great Fatherland War. 5. The Last Years of Stalin. 6. The Khrushchev Era. 7. The Brezhnev Era. Selected Bibliography. Index.

Editorial Reviews

'An expert in probing mafia-type relationships in present-day Russia, Martin McCauley here offers a vigorously written scrutiny of Soviet politics and society since the days of Lenin and Stalin.'

John Keep, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto.

From the Publisher

In this greatly expanded edition of his famous 1981 book, McCauley surveys the whole span of Soviet history: the hopeful idealism of its birth in the chaos of 1917; the trauma of the Stalin years and the Second World War; political hegemony over half the world through the decades of the Cold War; the first falterings; and the spectacular suddenness of the final collapse. A fitting conclusion to the Longman History of Russia series. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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