The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin 1917-1929

by Carr, E. H.; Davies, R. W.

• ISBN13: 9780333993095
• ISBN10: 0333993098
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

E.H. Carr is the acknowledged authority on Soviet Russia. In The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin 1917 - 1929 , he provides the student and general reader alike with insights and knowledge of a lifetime's work. This book, now available in a brand new edition, is, without doubt, the standard short history of the Russian Revolution and now contains a new introduction by R.W. Davies.

Author Biography

E. H. Carr is sometime Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge.

R.W. Davies is Emeritus Professor, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
List of Abbreviations	ix
Chronology	xi
Introduction	xv
Further Reading on the Years 1917-1929	xl
1 October 1917	1	(8)
2 The Two Worlds	9	(11)
3 War Communism	20	(10)
4 The Breathing-Space of NEP	30	(8)
5 The New Soviet Order	38	(12)
6 The Scissors Crisis	50	(11)
7 Lenin's Last Days	61	(7)
8 The Rise of Stalin	68	(16)
9 The USSR and the West (1923-1927)	84	(11)
10 The USSR and the East (1923-1927)	95
11 The Beginnings of Planning	19	(96)
12 The Defeat of the Opposition	115	(8)
13 The Dilemma of Agriculture	123	(8)
14 Growing Pains of Industrialization	131	(10)
15 The First Five-Year Plan	141	(12)
16 The Collectivization of the Peasant	153	(10)
17 Patterns of Dictatorship	163	(10)
18 The USSR and the World (1927-1929)	173	(12)
19 The Revolution in Perspective	185	(8)
Index	193