A History of Twentieth-Century Russia

Robert Service

    Acknowledgements

    A Note on Transliteration

    Maps

    The Russian Empire in 1900

    The Soviet Union, 1924-1936

    The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe after 1945

    The Commonwealth of Independent States in 1997

    The Russian Federation in 1997

    Introduction

    And Russia? 1900-1914

    The Fall of the Romanovs 1914-1917

    Part One

    Conflicts and Crises 1917

    The October Revolution 1917-1918

    New World, Old World

    Civil Wars 1918-1921

    The New Economic Policy 1921-1928

    Leninism and its Discontents

    Part Two

    The First Five-Year Plan 1928-1932

    Fortresses under Storm: Culture, Religion, Nation

    Terror upon Terror 1934-1938

    Coping with Big Brothers

    The Second World War 1939-1945

    Coda

    Suffering and Struggle 1941-1945

    Part Three

    The Hammers of Peace 1945-1953

    The Despot and his Masks

    'De-Stalinization' 1953-1961

    Hopes Unsettled 1961-1964

    Stabilization 1964-1970

    Part Four

    'Developed Socialism' 1970-1981

    Privilege and Alienation

    Towards Reform 1982-1985

    Glasnost and Perestroika 1986-1988

    Imploding Imperium 1989

    Hail and Farewell 1990-1991

    Power and the Market 1992-1993

    And Russia? 1994-1997

    Afterword: Past and Prospects

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Index

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Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor of Russian History at Oxford University.