Russia in the Era of NEP
Russia in the Era of NEP

Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1991-09-22

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780253206572

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" . . . a comprehensive look at an enigmatic era . . . " —Choice "This provocative collection of essays certainly takes some of the polish off Soviet socialism's golden age." —Journal of Interdisciplinary History "The authors and editors of this splendid volume deserve great praise. Their work moves the field of Soviet history several large steps forward." —Slavic Review Lenin's New Economic Policy of the 1920s, although a relatively free and open potential alternative to Soviet communism, was also a time of extreme tension, as Russian society and culture were rocked by the forces of resistance and change. These essays examine the social and cultural dimensions of NEP in urban and rural Russia in the years before Stalin and rapid industrialization.

About Russia, Its Revolutions, Its Development and Its Present
About Russia, Its Revolutions, Its Development and Its Present

Author: Michal Reiman

Publisher: Prager Schriften zur Zeitgeschichte und zum Zeitgeschehen

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783631671368

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The author analyzes the history of the USSR from a new perspective. Detailed examination of ideological heritage of the XIXth and XXth centuries shows new aspects of the Russian Revolution.

The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926
The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926

Author: Jonathan Coopersmith

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1501705369

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The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926 is the first full account of the widespread adoption of electricity in Russia, from the beginning in the 1880s to its early years as a state technology under Soviet rule. Jonathan Coopersmith has mined the archives for both the tsarist and the Soviet periods to examine a crucial element in the modernization of Russia. Coopersmith shows how the Communist Party forged an alliance with engineers to harness the socially transformative power of this science-based enterprise. A centralized plan of electrification triumphed, to the benefit of the Communist Party and the detriment of local governments and the electrical engineers. Coopersmith’s narrative of how this came to be elucidates the deep-seated and chronic conflict between the utopianism of Soviet ideology and the reality of Soviet politics and economics.

Russia's Last Capitalists
Russia's Last Capitalists

Author: Alan M. Ball

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1990-09-18

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780520910591

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In 1921 Lenin surprised foreign observers and many in his own Party, by calling for the legalization of private trade and manufacturing. Within a matter of months, this New Economic Policy (NEP) spawned many thousands of private entrepreneurs, dubbed Nepmen. After delineating this political background, Alan Ball turns his attention to the Nepmen themselves, examining where they came from, how they fared in competition with the socialist sector of the economy, their importance in the Soviet economy, and the consequences of their "liquidation" at the end of the 1920s. Alan Ball's history of this experiment with capitalism is strikingly relevant to current efforts toward economic reform in the USSR.

Inventing a Soviet Countryside
Inventing a Soviet Countryside

Author: James W. Heinzen

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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"Uses newly opened archives as well as published sources to examine the clash that occurred between the state and the Russian peasantry in the formative years of the Soviet government, before Stalin's bloody forced collectivization of agriculture in 1929."--BOOK JACKET.

Everyday Stalinism
Everyday Stalinism

Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1999-03-04

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0195050002

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Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, this college professor illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activities as shopping, landing a job, and other acts.

The Bolsheviks in Power
The Bolsheviks in Power

Author: Alexander Rabinowitch

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 0253220424

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Access to newly opened archives has allowed Alexander Rabinowitch to substantially rewrite the history of how the Bolsheviks consolidated their power in Russia. Focusing on the first year of Soviet rule in St Petersburg, he shows how state organs evolved in the face of repeated crises.

The Whisperers
The Whisperers

Author: Orlando Figes

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2008-09-04

Total Pages: 970

ISBN-13: 014180887X

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Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.

The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction
The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Stephen Lovell

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2009-07-23

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0199238480

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Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into Soviet society and culture from 1917 to 1991. Stephen Lovell examines aspects of patriotism, political violence, poverty, and ideology, and provides answers to some of the big questions about the Soviet experience. Throughout, the book takes a refreshing thematic approach to the Soviet Union and provides an up-to-date consideration of the Soviet Union's impact and what we have learnt since its end.