(Ebook) Understand Stalin s Russia 1st Edition by David Evans ISBN 1444157566 9781444157567

(Ebook) Understand Stalin s Russia 1st Edition by David Evans ISBN 1444157566 9781444157567

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ISBN 10: 1444157566 
ISBN 13: 9781444157567
Author: David Evans 

Understand Stalin's Russia is a compelling introduction to a man and a nation long enveloped in mystery. It covers all aspects of this fascinating history, from the shadows of Tsarism and the legacy of Lenin, to the implications of Stalin's rule - including the horrific effects of the five-year plans, and the heroic but costly triumph in the Great Patriotic War.

(Ebook) Understand Stalin s Russia 1st Table of contents:

1 Russia at the Time of Stalin’s Birth
The Djugashvili Family
Imperial Russia
…and Back to the Djugashvili Family
2 Towards Revolution
The Political Scene – the Struggle to Win the Support of the Working Classes
Tsarist Reaction to the Threat of Revolution
The War with Japan and the Revolution of 1904
The Consequences
The Period of Failed Dumas
…and What was Stalin up to During this Period?
Russia and the First World War
Towards Revolution
Stalin’s Role in these Events
3 Civil war – the Death of Lenin and the Power Struggle
The Situation at the End of 1917
The Short-Lived Constituent Assembly
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918
The Civil War
‘The Red Terror’
The End of the Romanovs
The Kronstadt Rising, 1921
Lenin’s New Economic Policy
The Power Struggle – Trotsky Versus Stalin
4 Stalin’s Economic Policies (1) – the Collectivization of Agriculture
Introduction
Collectivization – the Theory
Collectivization – the Practice
Just how Successful was Collectivization?
5 Stalin’s Economic Policies (2) – the Five-Year Plans
Five-Year Planning
The First Five-Year Plan, 1928–33
The Second Five-Year Plan, 1933–8
Stakhanovism
The Third Five-Year Plan, 1938–42
How Successful was Stalin’s Economic Revolution?
6 From Marxism-Leninism to Stalinism
Introduction
Marxism – the Russian Experience
Stalinism
Stalin’s ‘Cult of Personality’
Stalin’s New Constitution of 1936
Stalinism and Religion
Stalin’s ‘Cultural Revolution’
7 Stalin’s Terror – a Time of Purges and Show Trials
From Bloodless Revolution to Terror and Mass Murder
The First Trials for Industrial Espionage
The Riutin Affair
The Assassination of Kirov
Purges and Show Trials
The ‘Terror’ – an Overview
The Impact and Repercussions of the Purges and Show Trials
A Final Score to Settle – the Murder of Leon Trotsky
8 Everyday Life in Stalin’s Russia
The Family
Living Conditions
Education
Soviet Youth Movements
The Role of Women in the Soviet Union
Zhenotdel
…and What of Stalin and his Own Family?
9 Soviet Foreign Policy, 1918–40
Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1920s
The Third International – Comintern
The Treaty of Rapallo, 1922
Soviet Opportunities in the Far East
Challenges to Soviet Diplomacy in the 1930s
The Anti-Comintern Pact, 1936
The involvement of the Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War
The Soviet Union and the Czech Crisis
The German–Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of August 1939
The German–Soviet Invasion of Poland
The Russo-Finnish War – the ‘Winter War’ of 1939–40
10 The Great Patriotic War, 1941–5
Why Did Hitler Invade the Soviet Union?
Operation Barbarossa
The German Offensive – What Went Wrong?
Leningrad – ‘City of Suffering and Heroism’
The Battle of Stalingrad – ‘the Verdun of the Second World War’
Kursk – ‘the Greatest Tank Battle in History’
The Soviet Union under German Occupation
…of Collaboration and Resistance
The Soviet War Economy
The Importance of Foreign Aid
The Soviet Union’s Contribution to the Final Allied Victory
11 Soviet Foreign Policy After 1945 – the Cold War
Peace and the Origins of the Cold War
The Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, 1945
The Nuremberg Trials
Soviet Expansion in Eastern Europe
The Greek Civil War
The Start of the Cold War
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
Cominform – Comintern Under Another Name?
The Fate of Czechoslovakia
The Berlin Blockade, 1948–9
The Soviet Union Becomes a Nuclear Power
The Atom Spies
The Soviet Union and the Korean War
12 The Final Years of Stalin’s Rule
Introduction
Post-War Reconstruction
A return to Stalinist Tyranny
Years of ‘Hysterical Isolationism’
Zhdanov’s Purge of Soviet Culture
Conspiracies and a Purge of the Party
Again…What was Happening to Stalin’s Own Family?
Stalin’s Seventieth Birthday – the Cult of Personality Gone Berserk
Stalinist Anti-Semitism and the ‘Doctors’ Plot’172
The Final Days and Death of Josif Stalin
13 Stalinist Russia – a Postscript
Stalin’s death – the Aftermath
Khrushchev’s Speech at the Twentieth Party Conference
De-Stalinization
Stalin – Some Contrasting Views
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Glossary
Taking it Further
Copyright

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