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9780029197950

The Soviet Tragedy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780029197950

  • ISBN10:

    0029197953

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1994-04-01
  • Publisher: Free Pr

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Traces the development of communism in the former Soviet Union from Lenin to the advent of Gorbachev, arguing that communism's failure was not the result of faulty execution but of the idea that society could be improved using force.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction. The Historical Issues: A Time for Judgmentp. 1
The Origins
Why Socialism?p. 21
And Why in Russia First?p. 51
The Experiment
The Road to October: 1917p. 81
A Regime Is Born: War Communism, 1918-1921p. 109
The Road Not Taken: NEP 1921-1928p. 139
And They Built Socialism: 1929-1935p. 177
Purge and Consolidation: 1935-1939p. 227
The Empire
The Fortunes of War: 1939-1953p. 273
Reform Communism I: Khrushchev's Moscow Spring, 1953-1964p. 315
And the Bill Came Due: Brezhnev and Nomenklatura Communism, 1964-1982p. 351
The End
Reform Communism II: Gorbachev and Perestroika, 1982-1988p. 405
From Perestroika to Collapse: 1989-1991p. 445
The Perverse Logic of Utopiap. 491
Epilogue. The Legacyp. 505
Notes and Sourcesp. 521
Acknowledgmentsp. 555
Indexp. 557
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