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The rise and fall of Communism in Russia / Robert V. Daniels

Author
Daniels, Robert V. (Robert Vincent), 1926-2010
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
Copyright Date
©2007
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 481 pages)
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Contents
Marxism and Leninism -- The Bolshevik Revolution -- The left opposition between Lenin and Stalin -- Stalinism -- Reform versus bureaucracy, from Khrushchev to Brezhnev -- Gorbachev and the end of the communist system -- After the fall: reflections on the Soviet experience.
Summary
Distinguished historian of the Soviet period Robert V. Daniels offers a penetrating survey of the evolution of the Soviet system and its ideology. In a tightly woven series of analyses written during his career-long inquiry into the Soviet Union, Daniels explores the Soviet experience from Karl Marx to Boris Yeltsin and shows how key ideological notions were altered as Soviet history unfolded. The book exposes a long history of American misunderstanding of the Soviet Union, leading up to the 'grand surprise' of its collapse in 1991. Daniels' perspective is always original, and his assessments, some worked out years ago, are strikingly prescient in the light of post-1991 archival revelations. Soviet Communism evolved and decayed over the decades, Daniels argues, through a prolonged revolutionary process, combined with the challenges of modernization and the personal struggles between ideologues and power-grabbers.
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ISBN
9780300134933 (electronic bk.)
0300134932 (electronic bk.)
9780300106497
0300106491
1281734535
9781281734532
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-463) and index.
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