E.H. Carr is the acknowledged authority on Soviet Russia. In The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin 1917 - 1929 , he provides the student and general reader alike with insights and knowledge of a lifetime's work. This book, now available in a brand new edition, is, without doubt, the standard short history of the Russian Revolution and now contains a new introduction by R.W. Davies.
The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin, 1917-1929
Eyewitness account of the rise of Stalinism.
The Russian Revolution: From Lenin to Stalin
The book provides an illuminating background of the political history of the Soviet cinema in the twenties.
In Empire of Nations, Francine Hirsch examines the ways in which former imperial ethnographers and local elites provided the Bolsheviks with ethnographic knowledge that shaped the very formation of the new Soviet Union.
Kenez focuses on the experiences of the Russian people. The book is both a major contribution to our understanding of the genius of the Soviet state, and of the nature of propaganda in the twentieth-century.
An authoritative history of Russia from early Rus' to the reign of Peter the Great.
Michael Bourdeaux, Religious Minorities in the Soviet Union (London: ... Serhii Plokhy, “A Review of John Anderson's Religion, State and Politics in the Soviet Union and Successor States,” Journal of Ukrainian Studies 21, nos.
Samuel P. Huntington and Clement A. Moore (New York: Basic Books, 1970). More recently: Jennifer Gandhi and Adam Przeworski, “Cooperation, Cooptation, and Rebellion under Dictatorships,” Economics & Politics 18, no. 1 (2006). 9.
One exception to this approach was the massive study of the Russian Revolution by E. H. Carr ( The Bolshevik Revolution , 1950-3 ) . Although Carr's view of Lenin was not very positive , the main focus of his study was on broader ...