The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia
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The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia

  1. 494 pages
  2. English
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The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2008
eBook ISBN
9780300134933
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. PART I. Marxism and Leninism
  5. 1. Marx and the Movement of History
  6. 2. Fate and Will in the Marxian Vision
  7. 3. Lenin as a Russian Revolutionary
  8. 4. The Bolsheviks and the Intelligentsia
  9. 5. Lenin’s Vision The State and Revolution
  10. PART II. The Bolshevik Revolution
  11. 6. Russia and Revolution
  12. 7. Revolution from the Inside Trotsky’s Conception of the Process
  13. 8. The Bolshevik Gamble
  14. 9. Left Communism in the Revolutionary Era
  15. 10. Russian Revolutionary Extremism
  16. 11. The Militarization of Socialism in Russia
  17. 12. Bureaucratic Advance and Social Lag in the Revolution
  18. PART III. The Left Opposition between Lenin and Stalin
  19. 13. Socialist Alternatives in the Crisis of 1921
  20. 14. The Left Opposition and the Evolution of the Communist Regime
  21. 15. Trotsky on Democracy and Bureaucracy
  22. 16. The Left Opposition as an Alternative to Stalinism
  23. PART IV. Stalinism
  24. 17. Foundations of Stalinism
  25. 18. Stalinism as Postrevolutionary Dictatorship
  26. 19. From Distributive Socialism to Production Socialism
  27. 20. Stalin’s Cultural Counterrevolution
  28. 21. Stalinism and Russian Political Culture
  29. 22. Stalinist Ideology as False Consciousness
  30. 23. Was Stalin Really a Communist?
  31. PART V. Reform versus Bureaucracy, from Khrushchev to Brezhnev
  32. 24. Khrushchev and the Party Apparatus
  33. 25. Khrushchev and the Intelligentsia
  34. 26. The Fall of Khrushchev and the Advent of Participatory Bureaucracy
  35. 27. The Central Committee as a Bureaucratic Elite
  36. PART VI. Gorbachev and the End of the Communist System
  37. 28. The Generational Revolution
  38. 29. Reform and the Intelligentsia
  39. 30. Gorbachev’s Opportunity
  40. 31. Gorbachev and the Reversal of History
  41. 32. Soviet Federalism and the Breakup of the USSR
  42. PART VII. After the Fall
  43. 33. The Revolutionary Process and the Moderate Revolutionary Revival
  44. 34. The Communist Oppositions and Post-Stalinist Reform
  45. 35. Past and Present
  46. 36. The Grand Surprise and Soviet Studies
  47. Notes
  48. Index