Rulers and Victims

The Russians in the Soviet Union

Geoffrey Hosking

  • 2006 Alexander Nove Prize, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies

Preface

Introduction

1. Marxism and the Crisis of Russian Messianism

2. The Effects of Revolution and Civil War

3. Soviet Nationality Policy and the Russians

4. Two Russias Collide

5. Projecting a New Russia

6. The Great Fatherland War

7. The Sweet and Bitter Fruits of Victory

8. The Relaunch of Utopia

9. The Rediscovery of Russia

10. The Return of Politics

11. An Unanticipated Creation: The Russian Federation

Conclusion

Appendix: Tables

Notes

Index

  • Cover: Rulers and Victims
  • A photo of the author

Geoffrey Hosking is retired Professor of Russian History at the University College London.