TY  - GEN
AU  - Lewin, Moshe,
AU  - Elliott, Gregory
TI  - The Soviet century
SN  - 1844670163 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - DK266 .L474 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Verso
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - History
KW  - Sovyetler Birliği
KW  - Tarih
KW  - etuturkob
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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?
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0419/2004015478.html
ER  -