About Russia, its revolutions, its development and its present / / Michal Reimann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910269345303321
• Autore: Reimann Michal
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2016; Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] : , : Peter Lang Edition, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 3-631-69555-1; 3-653-06473-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Collana: Prager Schriften zur Zeitgeschichte und zum Zeitgeschehen, , 1861-163X ; ; Band 10
• Disciplina: 947.084
• Soggetti: Revolutions - Social aspects - Soviet Union - History; Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936; Soviet Union Politics and government 1936-1953; Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 Influence
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Content; Introduction; 1. About the Russian Revolution of 1917; The Russia's Maturity Level; The Russian Revolution of 1917 and Its Causes. Russian Marxism and the Bolshevics as a Political Party; The Russian Revolution as a Plebeian Revolution; 2. The "Building Socialism" in the early 1920s; The War Communism and the NEP; The Events of 1923 in Germany and the Origin of the "Left Opposition" in the USSR; The Party and the Opposition after Lenin; The Opposition and the NEP; 3. The NEP Crisis and Suppressing of the Left Opposition; The Year 1925 and Crush of Soviet Industrial Planing; Tautening International Relations and the NEP CrisisThe Party and Opposition in 1927. The "Platform" of Opposition; 4. The Stalin's "second" Revolution; The 1928 Crisis and Stalin's Conflict with the Party "Rightists"; Stalin, his First Five-Year Plan and Related Issues; Collectivisation of Agriculture and Its Consequences; The 1932-1933 Famine and Changes in Stalin's Politics; 5. Stalin's "Soft Course" and the Soviet 1930s Phenomenon; The Stalin's new Soviet Society; Kirov's ; Murder and the Turning Point in Stalin's Domestic Policy; Changes in the International Situation and Soviet Politics; Stalin's Constitution6. Stalin's "St. Bartholomew's Day"; 7. Consequences of Mass Massacre of the Soviet Elites; The Country after the Mass Massacre of Elites; USSR on the Brink of War; 8. The USSR in the Second World War, 1941-1945; 22 June 1941; Consolidation of the Soviet Leadership and Command; The 1943 - Turning Point of the War; Stalingrad and Kursk; 9. The USSR and Western Allies; Connection and contradiction of the Allies; Tehran; 10. The USSR and East-Central Europe; The USSR at the Countries of East Central Europe and Balkan on the End of War; Churchill, Stalin and the "Percentage Agreement"Yalta and Potsdam; 11. The USSR as the New World Superpower; A Few Words in Conclusion; Резюме; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The author analyzes the history of the USSR from a new perspective. Detailed examination of ideological heritage of the XIX and XX century shows new aspects of the Russian Revolution.