Twentieth century Russia

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Twentieth century Russia / Donald W. Treadgold.

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-540) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Introduction : From absolutism to totalitarianism -- The Russian people -- Marxism comes to Russia -- The Russo-Japanese War and the Revolution of 1905 -- The "Silver Age" of the arts -- Growth of the Russian economy -- The last years of Tsarism -- The February Revolution -- The October Revolution -- The Civil War : the White Challenge (1917-1919) -- The Civil War : the Red Victory (1919-1921) -- Lenin and the new economic policy -- Stalin, Trotsky, and Bukharin -- Finding a Soviet foreign policy (1917-1927) -- The revolution, the arts, and the church (1917-1927) -- Stalin and the first five-year plan (1928-1932) -- The consolidation of totalitarianism (1933-1941) -- Stalin and the borderlands -- Stalin's diplomacy and world communism (1927-1935) -- Stalin's diplomacy and world communism (1936-1941) -- Stalin's cultural policy (1927-1945) -- The U.S.S.R. in World War II : the military crisis (1941-1943) -- The U.S.S.R. in World War II : political successes (1943-1945) -- Communist expansion in Europe (1945-1953) -- Communist expansion in Asia (1945-1956) -- Stalin's retrenchment (1945-1953) -- The rise and ascendancy of Khrushchëv (1953-1964) -- The Brezhnev regime (1964-1982) -- Andropov, Chernenko, and Gorbachëv.