Covering Russia and the USSR, 1905-1991, this text gives students a full narrative context for their source-based work and provides GCSE-style assessment tasks.
This book is a brief, lucid account of Russian and Soviet history from ancient Kievan Rus' to the present day.
Distinguished by its brevity and amply supplemented with useful maps, illustrations, photos, and suggested readings, this essential text provides balanced coverage of all periods of Russian history and incorporates economic, social, and ...
This text is part of the 20th Century Depth Studies section in the Longman History Project. The project has been written and designed to meet the requirements of the Key...
Key elements of this book include: * each topic/issue forms a well-structured chapter: background; analysis; sources with questions; worked answers * a prominent historiography section â¬" an important element of the new A2 history ...
This is the first work to set one of the great bloodless revolutions of the twentieth century in its proper historical context.
From the capricious reign of Catherine the Great and Alexander I to the provocative leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, the author concentrates on the interplay between interests and ideologies in the relationship between the United States and ...
Catherine A. Fitzpatrick (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993). 2. Stephane Courtois et al., The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999). 3. Most notable are Djilas's The New ...
First hand account of the history of rock music in the Soviet Union.
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Russia has had an extraordinary history in the twentieth century. As the first Communist society, the USSR was both an admired model and an object of fear and hatred to...