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Soviet Union: A Documentary History Volume 2

1939-1991

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

AvEdward Acton,Tom Stableford

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Volume Two of this new documentary history of the Soviet Union comprises over 270 documents and is organised into four chronologically distinct parts, subdivided thematically; it runs from the fraught diplomatic and military preamble of the Great Patriotic War to the final fracturing of the USSR along the national fault-lines of its 15 Union Republics. Slight overlap of chronological coverage with Volume One allows increased attention in Volume Two to foreign affairs. Areas in this volume that attract greatest student interest are the epic dramas at the beginning and end of the period — the Great Patriotic War and Perestroika.The commentary is by Edward Acton, Professor of Modern European History at the University of East Anglia, who has published widely on the Russian revolution and the history of Russia and the USSR. The documents have been translated by Tom Stableford, Assistant Librarian, Slavonic and East European Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford

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Utgivningsdatum2007-02-12
Mått153 x 232 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieExeter Studies in History
Antal sidor576
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9780859895828

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ContentsNote on transliteration, Russian words and acronymsGlossaryMapsIntroductionPart One: Dealing with Hitler, 1939-19411 The Nazi-Soviet Pact2 The Winter War3 Military Reform and Buffer-Building Against Germany4 Stalin's Disastrous MiscalculationPart Two: Invasion and the Great Patriotic War, 1941-455 Barbarossa6 Allies7 Stiffening Soviet Resistance8 The Siege of Leningrad9 The Germans Outside Moscow10 German Occupation11 The Home Front, Legitimacy and the Economic War-Effort12 The Turning of the Tide: Stalingrad and Kursk13 Expectations14 RepressionPart Three: Stabilization and Stagnation, 1945-198515 The Cold War16 The Command Economy17 The One-Party State18 Marxism-Leninism and DissentPart Four: Crisis and Collapse, 1985-199119 The End of the Cold War and the "Socialist Commonwealth"20 The End of the Command Economy21 Glasnost'22 Democratization23 Nationalism24 The Break-up of the USSRFull List of DocumentsBiographical indexSubject index

As 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.History Teaching Review Year Book, Vol. 21