The Soviet Colossus: History and AftermathA history of modern Russia. Kort begins by providing an overview of the historical background, he then begins with the establishment of the Bolshevik Dictatorship and then tells the story of Communist Russia before concluding with a section on the first 10 years of post-Soviet Russia. |
Contents
Prologue | 3 |
The NineteenthCentury Crisis | 19 |
The People | 26 |
Strangers in a Strange Land | 32 |
Capitalism Comes to Russia | 47 |
The Revolutionaries Regroup | 54 |
The Final Years and Last Stand | 71 |
The Civil War | 108 |
The Great Patriotic War | 226 |
Stalins September Songs | 241 |
Reforming the Revolution | 261 |
The Graying of the Revolution | 289 |
From Restructuring to Deconstruction | 333 |
The Russian Devolution | 385 |
Chronology | 421 |
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