| Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History 2002 Edition Contributor(s): Wheatcroft, S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0333754611 ISBN-13: 9780333754610 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2002 Annotation: This collection presents radically new views on key aspects of Russian/Soviet history: the non-Slavic sources of Russian statehood, tsarist penal systems, the pre-evolutionary technological level, the famine of 1931-3, patronage practices in Stalin's Russia, the incidence and mechanism of Stalinist repression, the dissident roots of glasnost, Russian patriotic histories of War in the Caucasus, and the fall of the Soviet Union. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - History | Europe - General - History | Eastern Europe - General |
| Dewey: 947.007 |
| LCCN: 2001059829 |
| Series: Studies in Russian and East European History and Society |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.08" W x 8.3" (1.14 lbs) 242 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection presents views on key aspects of Russian/Soviet history such as the non-Slavic sources of Russian statehood; tsarist penal systems; the pre-evolutionary technological level; the famine of 1931-3; patronage practices in Stalin's Russia; and the fall of the Soviet Union. |