FROM VLADIMIR LENIN TO VLADIMIR PUTIN [electronic resource] : russia in search of its identity

Author: Brovkin, Vladimir N.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : ROUTLEDGE, 2023.
Physical Description: 1 online resource

Access Online

Taylor & Francis: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu

Availability

Finding items...

Summary

This book integrates Soviet and post-Soviet Russian history into a coherent whole by focusing on the culture, role models, habits and behavior patterns that provide continuity between various political regimes, systems, and rulers from Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin. The unifying theme of all these periods is the central question of identity - how the Russians have defined themselves, their country, and their values. Why did the Bolsheviks try to erase any trace of Old Russia and with what did they try to replace it? Why did Stalin wipe out the kulaks and the old Bolsheviks? What were the political consequences of the Great Patriotic War on the Russians as people? When post-Stalin Russia slowly weakened and gave way to the humanism and Westernization that led to the collapse of the Soviet system, why did the 1990s generate a resurgence of anti-western nationalism? And how to explain the slow and steady break with the West under President Putin? This will be a core textbook for undergraduate and graduate students of Russian and European history, and a valuable text for all those interested in how the Russian past influenced and shaped current politics, and in the international East-West divide in particular.

Subject(s)

ISBN

9781000985016 (electronic bk.)
1000985016 (electronic bk.)
9781003323341 (electronic bk.)
1003323340 (electronic bk.)
9781000985023 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
1000985024 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
1032346884
9781032346885
1032345985
9781032345987

View MARC record | catkey: 42256161