| Description |
2 volumes ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Exeter studies in history
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Exeter studies in history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part One: Dealing with Hitler (1939-1941) -- 1. The Nazi-Soviet Pact -- The dismembering of Poland -- The subordination of the Baltic states -- 2. The Winter War -- The Soviet attack -- The Soviet-Finnish peace treaty -- 3. Military Reform and Buffer-Building against Germany -- Annexation of the Baltic states, Bessarabia and Bukovina -- 4. Stalin's Disastrous Miscalculation -- Stalin's suspicion of Britain -- Stalin and military intelligence -- Part Two Invasion and the Great Patriotic War(1941-1945) -- 5. Barbarossa -- Soviet evacuation -- Stalin's public address -- 6. A lies -- The west -- The Church -- The Fourth international -- 7. Stiffening Soviet Resistance -- Order No.270 -- Raising military morale -- Public criticism and repression -- 8. German Onslaught -- The Siege of Leningrad -- The Germans outside Moscow -- German occupation -- 9. The Home Front, Legitimacy and the Economic War Effort -- Economic mobilization -- Soaring munitions production -- 10. The Turning of the Tide: Stalingrad and Kursk Order No. 227 -- The Battle of Stalingrad -- The Battle of Kursk -- Soviet advance. German retreat and the Warsaw Uprising -- Revenge on Germany -- Victory -- 11. Postwar Expectations -- Reconstruction in liberated territory -- Accommodation with the Church -- The dissolution of Comintern -- Relations with the west -- Popular attitudes -- 12. Repression -- The role of the NKVD and NKGB -- Mass deportation in the Crimea -- Mass deportation in the Caucasus -- Repression in Ukraine and Belorussia -- Repression of former prisoners of war -- Part Three: Stabilization and Stagnation (1 945-=1985) -- 13. The Cold War -- Conflict over eastern Europe -- The clash with Tito and Yugoslavia -- Mounting friction with the west -- Khrushchev and partial thaw -- Crisis in Poland and Hungary, 1956 -- Khrushchev and 'the correlation of forces' -- The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- Crisis in Czechoslovakia, 1968 - Détente -- The 'Second Cold War' -- Military intervention in Afghanistan -- Crisis in Poland, 1980-1981 -- "14. The Command Economy -- Postwar reconstruction -- Peasant policy after Stalin -- The 'virgin lands' campaign -- Khrushchev's optimism: New Party Programme, 1961 -- The Novocherkassk protests, 1962 -- The Kosygin reforms -- The Kosygin reforms -- "The decline in economic growth -- The Novosibirsk report -- "15. The One-Party State -- Stalin's last years -- Stalin's heirs -- 'De-Stalinization' and its limits -- The fall of Khrushchev -- The Brezhnev era -- 16. Marxism-Leninism and Dissent -- The Zhdanovshchina -- Partial thaw under Khrushchev -- Dýsent in the Brezhnev era -- Protest against the invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968 -- The Solzhenitsyn affair -- The limits of dissent -- Part Four: Crisis and Collapse (1985-1991) -- 17. The End of the Cold War and of the 'Socialist Commonwealth' -- Gorbachev's speech to the United Nations, 1988 -- 18, The End of the Command Economy -- Perestroika -- 19, Glasnost -- The unravelling of Marxism-Leninism -- 20. Democratization -- The Congress of People's Deputies -- 21. Nationalism -- Baltic nationalism -- Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict -- Violence in Georgia -- Soviet moves to thwart Lithuanian independence -- Russian nationalism -- Yeltsin's resignation from the CPSU -- The decomposition of the CPSU -- 22. The Break-up of the USSR -- Gorbachev's retreat -- The referendum on the maintenance of the USSR -- Yeltsin's popular election as Russian President -- The August putsch -- The banning of the CPSU in Russia -- Gorbachev's resignation |
| Subject |
Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936.
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Soviet Union. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1917-1936 |
| Subject |
Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953.
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| Chronological Term |
1925-1953 |
| Added Author |
Acton, Edward.
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Stableford, Tom.
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| ISBN |
0859895815 paperback |
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9780859895811 paperback |
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085989715X |
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9780859897150 |
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0859897168 v. 2 cased |
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0859895823 v. 2 paperback |
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9780859895828 v. 1 paperback |
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9780859897167 v. 2 cased |
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