Russia in the Twentieth Century: The quest for stability

by Marples,David R.

• ISBN13: 9781408228227
• ISBN10: 140822822X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A refreshing look at Russia in the 20th century which concentrates on the importance of its history when understanding why the Soviet Union ultimately fell. Contains a host of pedagogical features including maps, illustrations, and boxed sections about leading personalities. Guides to further reading and example essay questions Contains valuable primary source material

Author Biography

David R. Marples is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada. He is the author of twelve books on contemporary Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, including Lenin's Revolution: Russia 1917-1921 (2000) and The Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991 (2004).

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. viii
List of boxes	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Publisher's acknowledgements	p. xi
Maps	p. xii
Preface	p. xvii
Glossary	p. xviii
From tsarism to revolution, 1894-1917	p. 1
Social and political conditions in tsarist Russia	p. 1
The war with Japan	p. 3
The 1905 Revolution	p. 5
The time of the Dumas	p. 8
Stolypin's reforms	p. 10
The alliance system	p. 13
The First World War	p. 15
The February Revolution	p. 18
The return of Lenin	p. 22
The July Days	p. 24
The Kornilov revolt	p. 26
The October Revolution, 1917-1921	p. 31
The Constituent Assembly	p. 37
Making peace with the Central Powers	p. 39
The Cheka and the beginning of the Red Terror	p. 41
The start of War Communism	p. 44
The start of the civil war	p. 45
Red victory	p. 49
The war with the Poles	p. 51
The end of the civil war	p. 52
The Kronstadt rebellion	p. 53
NEP and the rise of Stalin, 1921-1928	p. 58
The formation of the USSR	p. 58
The start of the New Economic Policy	p. 62
The development of a Soviet bureaucracy	p. 65
The rise of Stalin	p. 68
The death of Lenin	p. 71
The formation of the United Opposition	p. 74
Propaganda, literacy, and education	p. 76
Foreign policy in the 1920s	p. 82
Summary: the 1920s	p. 89
Collectivization, industrialization and the Great Purge, 1929-1940	p. 91
Introduction	p. 91
The decision to collectivize agriculture	p. 92
Mass collectivization begins	p. 94
The Great Famine in Ukraine	p. 98
Completion of collectivization	p. 102
The start of industrialization	p. 103
The purges	p. 108
Socialist Realism begins	p. 116
Foreign policy in the 1930s	p. 120
Popular Fronts	p. 122
Toward the Nazi-Soviet Pact	p. 124
The Great Patriotic War and aftermath, 1941-1953	p. 135
Early stages	p. 135
The assault on Leningrad and Kyiv	p. 141
Operation Typhoon: the attack on Moscow	p. 142
The Partisan movement	p. 145
Stalingrad	p. 146
Wartime culture: the peak of Socialist Realism	p. 150
The Battle of Kursk Salient	p. 154
Stalin and his allies	p. 156
Victory in the West and in the East	p. 161
The results of the Great Patriotic War	p. 162
Economic recovery	p. 165
Armed resistance	p. 167
The period of High Stalinism	p. 169
Khrushchev's reforms, 1953-1964; and postwar foreign policy	p. 176
The succession question	p. 176
The Virgin Lands Program	p. 181
The 20th Party Congress	p. 183
The attack on the Russian Orthodox Church	p. 190
Cultural thaw	p. 191
Foreign policy during the early Cold War, 1945-1963	p. 194
Another plot	p. 217
The Brezhnev regime and its successors, 1964-1984	p. 222
Introduction	p. 222
Leonid Ilich Brezhnev	p. 224
The economy	p. 225
The Constitution of 1977	p. 230
Language and political questions in the national republics	p. 231
Foreign policy under Brezhnev	p. 234
Culture under Brezhnev	p. 249
The dissident movement	p. 253
The last years of the Brezhnev regime	p. 254
The interlude: Andropov and Chernenko	p. 255
Gorbachev, Glasnost and Perestroika, 1985-1991	p. 260
Introduction	p. 260
The Chernobyl disaster	p. 263
The development of Glasnost	p. 269
Politics under Gorbachev	p. 275
The perils of Perestroika	p. 282
Foreign policy	p. 285
The national question	p. 290
1991 - the year of collapse	p. 295
The Soviet legacy in retrospect	p. 299
From Yeltsin to Putin: Russia's decline and recovery, 1992-2008	p. 304
Vladimir V. Putin	p. 312
Political events, 2000-2008	p. 314
The attack on the oligarchs	p. 315
Presidential elections of 2004	p. 317
Russia and its neighbors	p. 319
Chechnya: terrorism and the resumption of war	p. 322
Partnerships	p. 324
The 2007 parliamentary elections	p. 325
Gazprom and economic revival	p. 328
Historical memory and the modern state	p. 329
Bibliography of older works	p. 338
Index	p. 351
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