Soviet Union: A Documentary History Volume 2
1939-1991
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
543 pages
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9-1/5 x 6-1/5
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.
Contents
Note on transliteration, Russian words and acronyms
Glossary
Maps
Introduction
Part One: Dealing with Hitler, 1939-1941
1 The Nazi-Soviet Pact
2 The Winter War
3 Military Reform and Buffer-Building Against Germany
4 Stalin's Disastrous Miscalculation
Part Two: Invasion and the Great Patriotic War, 1941-45
5 Barbarossa
6 Allies
7 Stiffening Soviet Resistance
8 The Siege of Leningrad
9 The Germans Outside Moscow
10 German Occupation
11 The Home Front, Legitimacy and the Economic War-Effort
12 The Turning of the Tide: Stalingrad and Kursk
13 Expectations
14 Repression
Part Three: Stabilization and Stagnation, 1945-1985
15 The Cold War
16 The Command Economy
17 The One-Party State
18 Marxism-Leninism and Dissent
Part Four: Crisis and Collapse, 1985-1991
19 The End of the Cold War and the "Socialist Commonwealth"
20 The End of the Command Economy
21 Glasnost'
22 Democratization
23 Nationalism
24 The Break-up of the USSR
Full List of Documents
Biographical index
Subject index
Glossary
Maps
Introduction
Part One: Dealing with Hitler, 1939-1941
1 The Nazi-Soviet Pact
2 The Winter War
3 Military Reform and Buffer-Building Against Germany
4 Stalin's Disastrous Miscalculation
Part Two: Invasion and the Great Patriotic War, 1941-45
5 Barbarossa
6 Allies
7 Stiffening Soviet Resistance
8 The Siege of Leningrad
9 The Germans Outside Moscow
10 German Occupation
11 The Home Front, Legitimacy and the Economic War-Effort
12 The Turning of the Tide: Stalingrad and Kursk
13 Expectations
14 Repression
Part Three: Stabilization and Stagnation, 1945-1985
15 The Cold War
16 The Command Economy
17 The One-Party State
18 Marxism-Leninism and Dissent
Part Four: Crisis and Collapse, 1985-1991
19 The End of the Cold War and the "Socialist Commonwealth"
20 The End of the Command Economy
21 Glasnost'
22 Democratization
23 Nationalism
24 The Break-up of the USSR
Full List of Documents
Biographical index
Subject index
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