Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia 1918-56

Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia 1918-56

Author: Michael Lynch

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780340885901

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This is a new edition of Stalin and Khrushchev: The USSR 1924-64. It has been revised and retitled to reflect the needs of the current specifications and provides a narrative and analysis of the Bolshevik consolidation of power under Lenin and Stalin's rise to power. It then examines Stalin's leadership, his restructuring of the Soviet economy, his foreign policies and what life was like in Stalinist Russia. Throughout the book key dates, terms and issues are highlighted, and historical interpretations of key debates are outlined. Summary diagrams are included to consolidate knowledge and understanding of the period, and exam-style questions and tips for each examination board provide the opportunity to develop exam skills.


Access to History: Stalin's Russia 1924-53 4th Edition

Access to History: Stalin's Russia 1924-53 4th Edition

Author: Michael Lynch

Publisher: Hodder Education

Published: 2008-06-27

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1444150774

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The Access to History series is the most popular and trusted series for AS and A level history students. The new editions combine all the strengths of this well-loved series with a new design and features that allow all students access to the content and study skills needed to achieve exam success. This is a new edition of the bestselling title 'Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia 1918-56' which now focuses on the period from 1924-53. It has been revised and fully updated for the 2008 AS specifications for Edexcel and AQA, providing both a narrative and an analysis of the impact of Stalin's leadership on the USSR. It examines Stalin's rise to power following Lenin's death in 1924, the nature of his rule, the economic changes he brought about and his foreign policies. Finally, a concluding chapter focuses on what life was like in Stalinist Russia. Throughout the book, key dates, terms and issues are highlighted, and historical interpretations of key debates are outlined. Summary diagrams are included to consolidate knowledge and understanding of the period, and exam-style questions and tips written by examiners for each specification provide the opportunity to develop exam skills.


Survival and Consolidation

Survival and Consolidation

Author: Richard K. Debo

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 9780773508286

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At a time when the Soviet Union is disintegrating, Richard Debo provides an intriguing and detailed examination of the new political realities that slowly and painfully emerged in eastern Europe out of the chaos left in the wake of the First World War. Revealing the reasons for the victory of Lenin's Bolshevik government in the Russian civil war, Debo demonstrates that Bolshevik political and diplomatic skills were far superior to those of either their indigenous opponents or their many foreign enemies. For much of 1919, enemies of the Soviet government were more interested in fighting each other than the Bolsheviks, and, although foreign powers sought to influence competing anti-Bolshevik generals, they actually contributed little to the defeat of the Red Army. Meanwhile, the Bolsheviks established realistic priorities, formulated flexible policies, and made political sacrifices unimagined by their enemies. As a result they were able to find allies and divide opponents.


Bolshevik Party in Conflict

Bolshevik Party in Conflict

Author: Ronald I. Kowalski

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1991-06-18

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1349103675

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An examination of the part played by the left Communists following the Russian revolution, the largest opposition to state socialism until the 1990s. The author feels that the leftist's vision offered no viable model for the construction of a democratic socialist society.


Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution

Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution

Author: Antony Cyril Sutton

Publisher: CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

Published: 2012-12-17

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1905570619

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Why did the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring for the victims of war and revolution, its members seemed more intent on negotiating contracts with the Kerensky government, and subsequently the Bolshevik regime. In a courageous investigation, Antony Sutton establishes tangible historical links between US capitalists and Russian communists. Drawing on State Department files, personal papers of key Wall Street figures, biographies and conventional histories, Sutton reveals: The role of Morgan banking executives in funnelling illegal Bolshevik gold into the US; the co-option of the American Red Cross by powerful Wall Street forces; the intervention by Wall Street sources to free the Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky, whose aim was to topple the Russian government; the deals made by major corporations to capture the huge Russian market a decade and a half before the US recognized the Soviet regime; the secret sponsoring of Communism by leading businessmen, who publicly championed free enterprise. Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution traces the foundations of Western funding of the Soviet Union. Dispassionately, and with overwhelming documentation, the author details a crucial phase in the establishment of Communist Russia. This classic study - first published in 1974 and part of a key trilogy - is reproduced here in its original form. (The other volumes in the series include Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler and a study of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 Presidential election in the United States.)


The Bolsheviks and the Red Army 1918-1921

The Bolsheviks and the Red Army 1918-1921

Author: Francesco Benvenuti

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1988-10-28

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780521257718

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The emergence of the military agency of the Soviet state is a crucial but neglected aspect of inter-war Soviet history, and in this pioneering study Francesco Benvenuti provides a detailed analysis of the politics (as opposed to the operational activities) of the Red Army during the Civil War. Several historians have suggested that the roots of Stalinism may be found in the Bolshevik experience during the Civil War, and Benvenuti shows that the military opposition inside the party was much stronger than conventionally supposed: Trotsky's subsequent political weakness owed much to his ruthless pursuit of military goals not always in direct harmony with party interests, as did his technocratic attempts to extend the role of specialist advisers at the expense of party officials.


The Bolsheviks in Power

The Bolsheviks in Power

Author: Александр Фёдорович Ильин-Женевский

Publisher: Indexreach

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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Discusses the formation and history of the Red Army, 1918-1923.


Red Victory

Red Victory

Author: W. Bruce Lincoln

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13:

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A chronicle of the Russian Civil War, from 1918 to 1921.