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This volume, originally published in 1964, presents a series of
slides illustrating the major events of the Russian Revolution.
Gathering together many accounts from the memoirs of innumerable
people from every walk of life and political frame of mind:
communists and tsarists, foreign journalists and ambassadors in
Petrograd, Russian soldiers at the front and peasants in the
countryside. The accounts of the witnesses allow the reader to
relive the chaos and the high drama of the revolution through their
eyes and experiences.
First Published in 1962, A Key to Soviet Politics is the first full
scale attempt to analyse the internal struggle for power in Russia
since 1957. The changes in the Soviet government after the 'Crisis'
of June 1957 are probably better documented than perhaps any other
political upheaval in Soviet history, because Soviet press and
party journals devoted an unusual amount of attention to the June
Crisis and because information on the crisis was allowed to leak
out slowly in the subsequent fall of Zhukov in 1957 and Bulganin in
1958, and the renewed attack on the 'Anti-party' group at the Party
Congresses in 1959 and 1961. Roger Pethybridge argues that this
crisis of the 'Anti-party' group in fact illuminated many other
related topics in Soviet politics. This book will be an essential
read for scholars and researchers of Soviet history, Soviet
politics, European history, Russian history, and comparative
politics.
First Published in 1966, A History of Postwar Russia covers sixteen
years of Soviet history, from the closing stages of the Second
World War (1945) until the Twenty-second Soviet Party Congress
(1961), dealing with both domestic and foreign policy and their
influence on each other. It aims at giving the overall shape of
Soviet history in these years. The author argues that in Soviet
society each sector of activity must be viewed in relation to the
whole, so that the monolithic pattern of totalitarian politics can
be appreciated. More than any other major power, the Soviet Union
did not submit easily to compartmentalized study, since every
branch of Soviet life was carefully trimmed to grow towards the
Communist aim. This book is an essential read for scholars and
researchers of Soviet history, Soviet politics, European history,
Russian history, and comparative politics.
This volume, originally published in 1964, presents a series of
slides illustrating the major events of the Russian Revolution.
Gathering together many accounts from the memoirs of innumerable
people from every walk of life and political frame of mind:
communists and tsarists, foreign journalists and ambassadors in
Petrograd, Russian soldiers at the front and peasants in the
countryside. The accounts of the witnesses allow the reader to
relive the chaos and the high drama of the revolution through their
eyes and experiences.
This study of Soviet politics and society under the New Economic
Policy is the first to relate local problems directly to changing
central ideological views during the crucial early years of the
Soviet State. Roger Pethybridge makes an intensive examination of
five Russian and minority localities in 1922, when the NEP was at
its early stages, and again at its height in 1926. These detailed
studies demonstrate that under the early NEP there were effectively
two capitals - Moscow for politics, and Petrograd for culture, and
their roles are examined in depth, as Professor Pethybridge
analyses the workings of Bolshevik control mechanisms, and means of
communication between centre and periphery in this period. One Step
Backwards, Two Steps Forward throws new light on the roles of
socio-political agents, and potential enemies in Russia's vast
hinterland. Professor Pethybridge argues that the well-known threat
to the regime from the kulaks was less menacing than that from the
Nepmen and the artisans. This carefully researched and provocative
account of the formative years of the USSR will be invaluable to
all scholars of Soviet history and government.
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