The Soviet Century - Rilegato

Lewin, Moshe; Elliott, Gregory

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ISBN 10: 1844670163 ISBN 13: 9781844670161

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2005

Riassunto

The USSR may no longer exist, but its history remains highly relevant—perhaps today more so than ever. Yet it is a history which for a long time proved impossible to write, not simply due to the lack of accessible documentation, but also because it lay at the heart of an ideological confrontation which obscured the reality of the Soviet regime.

In The Soviet Century, Moshe Lewin traces this history in all its complexity, drawing widely upon archive material previously unavailable. Highlighting key factors such as demography, economics, culture and political repression, Lewin guides us through the inner workings of a system which is still barely understood. In the process he overturns widely held beliefs about the USSR’s leaders, the State-Party system and the Soviet bureaucracy, the “tentacled octopus” which held the real power.

Departing from a simple linear history, The Soviet Century takes in all the continuities and ruptures that led, via a complex route, from the founding revolution of October 1917 to the final collapse of the late 1980s and early 1990s, passing through the Stalinist dictatorship and the impossible reforms of the Khrushchev years.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Gregory Elliott is a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and author ofAlthusser: The Detour of Theory and Labourism and the English Genius: The Strange Decay of Labour England?.

Moshe Lewin was a hugely respected historian of the Soviet Union. Professor of Soviet Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, his books include Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison and The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1844670163
• ISBN 13: 9781844670161
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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