The Soviet century /
Moshe Lewin ; edited by Gregory Elliott.
- ix, 416 p. ; 25 cm.
Stalin knows where he wants to get to and is getting there -- Autonomization versus federation? (1922-3) -- Cadres into heretics -- The party and its apparaty -- Social flux and systemic paranoia -- The impact of collectivization -- Between legality and bacchanalia -- How did Stalin rule? -- The purges and their rationale -- The scale of the purges -- The camps and the industrial empire of the NKVD -- Endgame -- An agrarian despotism? -- E pur, si muove! -- The KGB and the political opposition -- The avalanche of urbanization -- The administrators : bruised but thriving -- Some leaders -- Kosygin and Andropov -- Lenin's time and worlds -- Backwardness and relapse -- Modernity with a twist -- Urbanization : successes and failures -- Labour force and demography : a conundrum -- The bureaucratic maze -- Telling the light from the shade? -- What was the Soviet system?