The Soviet Century by Lewin, Moshe -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Halftitle Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Introduction Part One: A Regime and its Psyche

Introduction 1. Stalin Knows Where He Wants to Get to – and is Getting There 2. ‘Autonomization Versus Federation’ (1922–3) 3. ‘Cadres into Heretics’ 4. The Party and its Apparaty 5. Social Flux and ‘Systemic Paranoia’ 6. The Impact of Collectivization 7. Between Legality and Bacchanalia 8. How Did Stalin Rule? 9. The Purges and Their ‘Rationale’ 10. The Scale of the Purges 11. The Camps and the Industrial Empire of the NKVD 12. Endgame 13. An Agrarian Despotism?

Part Two: The 1960s and Beyond: From a New model to a New Impasse

14. ‘E Pur, Si Muove!’ 15. The KGB and the Political Opposition 16. The Avalanche of Urbanization 17. The ‘Administrators’: Bruised but Thriving 18. Some Leaders 19. Kosygin and Andropov

Part Three: The Soviet Century: Russia in Historical Context

20. Lenin’s Time and Worlds 21. Backwardness and Relapse 22. Modernity with a Twist 23. Urbanization: Successes and Failures 24. Labour Force and Demography: A Conundrum 25. The Bureaucratic Maze 26. ‘Telling the Light from the Shade’? 27. What was the Soviet System?

Notes Glossary of Russian Terms Appendices

Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Appendix 4

Note on Sources and References Index

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