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Russia under Tsarism and Communism 1881-1953 Second Edition

On sale

28th January 2011

Price: £30

Selected:  Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781444124231

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Russia under Tsarism and Communism 1881-1953
this title is a comprehensive core text on Russian history from 1881 to the death of Stalin. It is a second edition of the bestselling Communist Russia under Lenin and Stalin. This second edition is extended to cover the Tsarist pre-revolutionary period.

Major themes include
– the nature of Tsarist rule in Russia and the causes and consequences of the 1905 revolution;
– the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution in 1917;
– the nature, the achievements and failures of Lenin’s and Stalin’s Communist regimes;
– the ongoing historiographical debate about this period and the current reinterpretations of it.

Other improvements for this second edition include more streamlined coverage of Stalin’s foreign policy.

Reviews

Andrew Hunt, Scottish Association of History, Resources Review
Review of the first edition: 'This is a great book. You might have read Ron Grant's review of Hite and Hinton's Weimar and Nazi Germany in the same series. This is written at the same cracking standard.'

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