Lovell The Shadow of War

Russia and the USSR, 1941 to the present
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-2768-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell History of Russia

Taking the achievements, ambiguities, and legacies of World War IIas a point of departure, The Shadow of War: The Soviet Union andRussia, 1941 to the Present offers a fresh new approach tomodern Soviet and Russian history.
* Presents one of the only histories of the Soviet Union andRussia that begins with World War II and goes beyond the Sovietcollapse through to the early twenty-first century
* Innovative thematic arrangement and approach allows forinsights that are missed in chronological histories
* Draws on a wide range of sources and the very latest researchon post-Soviet history, a rapidly developing field
* Supported by further reading, bibliography, maps andillustrations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lovell, Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations.
Series Editor's Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Maps.
1. Introduction: World War II and the Remaking of the SovietUnion.
2. Reform, Reaction, Revolution.
3. From Plan to Market.
4. Structures of Society.
5. Public and Private.
6. Center and Periphery.
7. National Questions.
8. Geopolitical Imperatives.
9. From Isolationism to Globalization.
10. Conclusion: The Second Russian Revolution?
Notes.
Guide to Further Reading.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Lovell is a Reader in Modern European History at King's College London. His previous books include The Russian Reading Revolution: Print Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras (2000), Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710-2000 (2003), Destination in Doubt: Russia since 1989 (2006), and The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction (2009).