Weeks Across the Revolutionary Divide

Russia and the USSR, 1861-1945
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5160-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell History of Russia

Across the Revolutionary Divide: Russia and the USSR1861-1945 offers a broad interpretive account of Russianhistory from the emancipation of the serfs to the end of World WarII.
* Provides a coherent overview of Russia's development from 1861through to 1945
* Reflects the latest scholarship by taking a thematic approachto Russian history and bridging the 'revolutionarydivide' of 1917
* Covers political, economic, cultural, and everyday life issuesduring a period of major changes in Russian history
* Addresses throughout the diversity of national groups,cultures, and religions in the Russian Empire and USSR
* Shows how the radical policies adopted after 1917 both changedRussia and perpetuated an economic and political rigidity thatcontinues to influence modern society

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weeks, Theodore R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations viii
Series Editor's Preface ix
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction 1
1. Politics 18
2. Society 53
3. Nations 87
4. Modernization 117
5. Belief 147
6. World 175
7. Culture 204
Conclusion 234
Timeline 248
Notes 252
Select Bibliography 269
Index 275

Über Autor(innen)

Theodore R. Weeks is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He is author of Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia (1996) and From Assimilation to Antisemitism: The "Jewish Question" in Poland, 1855 to 1914 (2006).