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The Soviet Union: A Documentary History Volume 2: 1939-1991
Contributor(s): Acton, Edward (Author), Stableford, Tom (Author)

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 ISBN: 0859897168     ISBN-13: 9780859897167
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
OUR PRICE: $157.50  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2007
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Annotation: The Soviet story--revolution, Lenin, Stalinism, the Great Patriotic War, the era of Khrushchev, Brezhnev and the Cold War, the dramatic collapse under Gorbachev--looms large in history lessons across the world. Combining lucid narrative commentary with over 270 contemporary documents, this book provides a lively entree to current debate over humanity's most momentous and tragic experiment. Volume Two runs from the fraught diplomatic and military preamble of the Great Patriotic War to the final fracturing of the USSR.

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BISAC Categories:
- History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union
Dewey: 947.084
Series: Exeter Studies in History
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 9" W x 6.4" L (2.20 lbs) 576 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Russia
Features: Glossary, Maps
 
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Publisher Description:
Volume Two of this new documentary history of the Soviet Union comprises over 270 documents and is organised into four chronologically distinct parts, subdivided thematically; it runs from the fraught diplomatic and military preamble of the Great Patriotic War to the final fracturing of the
USSR along the national fault-lines of its 15 Union Republics. Slight overlap of chronological coverage with Volume One allows increased attention in Volume Two to foreign affairs. Areas in this volume that attract greatest student interest are the epic dramas at the beginning and end of the period
- the Great Patriotic War and Perestroika.The commentary is by Edward Acton, Professor of Modern European History at the University of East Anglia, who has published widely on the Russian revolution and the history of Russia and the USSR. The documents have been translated by Tom Stableford,
Assistant Librarian, Slavonic and East European Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
 
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