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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953609203321

Autore

Daniels Robert V (Robert Vincent), <1926-2010>

Titolo

The rise and fall of Communism in Russia / / Robert V. Daniels

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2007

ISBN

9786611734534

9781281734532

1281734535

9780300134933

0300134932

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 481 pages)

Disciplina

947.084

Soggetti

Communism - Soviet Union - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-463) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Marxism and Leninism -- The Bolshevik Revolution -- The left opposition between Lenin and Stalin -- Stalinism -- Reform versus bureaucracy, from Khrushchev to Brezhnev -- Gorbachev and the end of the communist system -- After the fall: reflections on the Soviet experience.

Sommario/riassunto

Distinguished historian of the Soviet period Robert V. Daniels offers a penetrating survey of the evolution of the Soviet system and its ideology. In a tightly woven series of analyses written during his career-long inquiry into the Soviet Union, Daniels explores the Soviet experience from Karl Marx to Boris Yeltsin and shows how key ideological notions were altered as Soviet history unfolded.The book exposes a long history of American misunderstanding of the Soviet Union, leading up to the "grand surprise" of its collapse in 1991. Daniels's perspective is always original, and his assessments, some worked out years ago, are strikingly prescient in the light of post-1991 archival revelations. Soviet Communism evolved and decayed over the decades, Daniels argues, through a prolonged revolutionary process, combined with the challenges of modernization and the personal struggles between ideologues and power-grabbers.