Ranging from the Russian revolution of 1917 to the collapse of Eastern Europe in the 1980s, this study examines communist rule. By focusing primarily on the USSR and Eastern Europe, Stephen White covers the major topics and issues affecting these countries, including: communism as a doctrine; the evolution of communist rule; the challenges to Soviet authority in Hungary and Yugoslavia; the emerging economic fragility of the 1960s; and the complex process of collapse in the 1980s.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Stephen White
EAN: 9780415244237
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 249 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-11-09
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GENRE: HISTORY / General
WIDTH: 138 cm
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USSR, Soviet Union, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Far-left political ideologies and movements, General and world history
Stephen White Professor of Politics at the University of Glasgow. His many published works include The Bolshevik Poster (Yale, 1988), After Gorbachev (Cambridge, 1994), Russia’s New Politics (Cambridge, 2000) and, with Evan Mawdsley, The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev (Oxford, 2000).
