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The Soviet Colossus
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Author : Michael G. Kort
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-18
The Soviet Colossus written by Michael G. Kort and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-18 with Business & Economics categories.
The twentieth century was not kind to Russia. Despite its great potential and remarkable achievements, the country also bore the weight of two world wars, a revolution and civil war, totalitarian tyranny, famine and ecological destruction, economic ruin, and imperial decline. Will Russia ever be prosperous, peaceful, and free? Seeking clues in the past, Michael Kort revisits earlier turning points in Russia's history--from the fall of the old regime to the establishment of the Bolshevik dictatorship and Stalinist totalitarianism; from the reforms and counter-reforms of Khrushchev and Brezhnev to the tumultuous years of change under Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Which strands of Russia's past is their successor, Vladimir Putin, weaving into the fabric of the present, and which are being allowed to fade, for better or worse? This new edition of The Soviet Colossus brings the story up through the first decade of the twenty-first century. Distinctively readable, judicious, and focused on critical events and questions, it integrates new revelations about the Soviet past and ongoing debates about the Soviet regime as well as its successor. It is the ideal text for as one semester history course or background for a political science course.
The Soviet Colossus
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Author : Michael G. Kort
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-17
The Soviet Colossus written by Michael G. Kort and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-17 with Business & Economics categories.
The Soviet Colossus revisits the turning points in Russia’s modern history, from the fall of the tsarist regime to the establishment of the Bolshevik dictatorship and Stalinist totalitarianism; the reforms and counter-reforms of Khrushchev and Brezhnev to the reform program of Mikhail Gorbachev and the resultant collapse of the Soviet Union; and from the effort to build a democratic and free-market Russia under Boris Yeltsin to the political authoritarianism and the establishment of a state capitalist economy under Vladimir Putin. This eighth edition has been revised and updated to cover the latest developments from the Putin administration. These revisions include added emphasis on the increasing authoritarian nature of Russia’s political system, the serious challenges posed by the country’s unsolved economic and social problems, and the growing tensions between Russia on the one hand and the United States and the European Union on the other as a result of Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine. Kort combines this updated account with a broad exploration of Russia’s political history, examining how the Soviet past has been woven into the fabric of the modern Russian state, a state which plays such a major, assertive role in global affairs, but which simultaneously remains an allusive, secretive entity. With Russia’s increasing influence on the global stage and the controversies that often accompany this, The Soviet Colossus is an invaluable resource for students of history, politics, and international relations.
The Soviet Colossus
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Author : Michael Kort
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Release Date : 1985
The Soviet Colossus written by Michael Kort and has been published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.
Recounts the factors shaping the history of the USSR to the present.
The Soviet Colossus
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Author : Michael Kort
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1993
The Soviet Colossus written by Michael Kort and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
"The Soviet Colossus" is an introduction to 20th-century Soviet history within the context of Russian history as a whole. Kort begins by showing how and why the Tsars developed powerful centralised institutions that undermined the political, civil and economic freedoms of the Russian people. He then goes on to explain how the Bolsheviks' attempt to build socialism in a backward country produced the strong centralised bureaucracy that was characteristic of the Soviet Union. The post-Stalin years of half-way reforms are surveyed for new insights. In the concluding chapters Kort discusses Gorbachev's place in the continuum of Russian and Soviet history, and his role in unleashing the force that finally toppled the Soviet colossus.
The Soviet Colossus
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Author : Michael Kort
language : en
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Release Date : 1985
The Soviet Colossus written by Michael Kort and has been published by Scribner Book Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Russia categories.
Recounts the factors shaping the history of the USSR to the present.
The Soviet Colossus
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Author : Michael Kort
language : en
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Release Date : 2001
The Soviet Colossus written by Michael Kort and has been published by M.E. Sharpe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Business & Economics categories.
The most readable history of twentieth century Russia, from tsarist times to the present -- now completely revised and updated to integrate new revelations and ongoing debates about the nature of the Soviet regime, and including coverage of the first decade of post-Soviet Russia.
Stumbling Colossus
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Author : David M. Glantz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Stumbling Colossus written by David M. Glantz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Drawing on evidence never before seen in the West, including combat records of early engagements, David Glantz claims that in 1941 the Red Army was poorly trained, inadequately equipped, ineptly organized, and consequently incapable of engaging in large-scale military campaigns - and both Hitler and Stalin knew it. He provides a complete and convincing study of why the Soviets almost lost the war that summer, dispelling many of the myths about the Red Army that have persisted since the war and soundly refuting Viktor Suvorov's controversial thesis that Stalin was planning a preemptive strike against Germany.
The Soviet Colossus
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Author : Michael Kort
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1993
The Soviet Colossus written by Michael Kort and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
**** New edition of a book endorsed, in earlier incarnations, by BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Soviet Colossus
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
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Origins Of The Gulag
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Author : Michael Jakobson
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2014-07-15
Origins Of The Gulag written by Michael Jakobson and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with History categories.
A vast network of prison camps was an essential part of the Stalinist system. Conditions in the camps were brutal, life expectancy short. At their peak, they housed millions, and hardly an individual in the Soviet Union remained untouched by their tentacles. Michael Jakobson's is the first study to examine the most crucial period in the history of the camps: from the October Revolution of 1917, when the tsarist prison system was destroyed to October 1934, when all places of confinement were consolidated under one agency—the infamous GULAG. The prison camps served the Soviet government in many ways: to isolate opponents and frighten the population into submission, to increase labor productivity through the arrest of "inefficient" workers, and to provide labor for factories, mines, lumbering, and construction projects. Jakobson focuses on the structure and interrelations of prison agencies, the Bolshevik views of crime and punishment and inmate reeducation, and prison self-sufficiency. He also describes how political conditions and competition among prison agencies contributed to an unprecedented expansion of the system. Finally, he disputes the official claim of 1931 that the system was profitable—a claim long accepted by former inmates and Western researchers and used to explain the proliferation of the camps and their population. Did Marxism or the Bolshevik Revolution or Leninism inexorably lead to the GULAG system? Were its origins truly evil or merely banal? Jakobson's important book probes the official record to cast new light on a system that for a time supported but ultimately helped destroy the now fallen Soviet colossus.