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Understand Stalin's Russia is a compelling introduction to a man and a nation long enveloped in mystery. It covers all aspects of this fascinating history, from the shadows of Tsarism and the legacy of Lenin, to the implications of Stalin's rule - including the horrific effects of the five-year plans, and the heroic but costly triumph in the Great Patriotic War.
Contents
: Introduction
: 1. Russia at the time of Stalin's birth
: 2. Towards revolution
: The Russia into which Stalin was born
: The condition of Russia in 1879 (the year of Stalin's birth)
: 3. Civil war, the death of Lenin and the power struggle
: 4. The collectivization of agriculture
: The church, class structure and the autocratic rule of the Romanovs
: The condition of the Russian people
: 5. The Five-Year Plans
: 6. From Marxism-Leninism to Stalinism
: The development of a revolutionary tradition
: Towards revolution and civil war
: 7. Stalin's terror
: 8. Everyday life in Stalin's Russia
: Political parties and revolutionary groups
: Tsarism under threat: The reasons for its survival and recovery
: 9. Soviet foreign policy, 1918-40
: 10. The Great Patriotic War, 1941-5
: The age of the dumas
: Russia's involvement in the First World War and its consequences
: 11. Soviet foreign policy after 1945 - The Cold War
: 12. The final years of Stalin's rule
: Background to the revolutions of 1917
: The failure of the Provisional Government and the coming of civil war
: 13. Stalinist Russia - a postscript
: The end of the Romanovs
: The death of Lenin and the power struggle
: The significance and aftermath of Lenin's death
: The power struggle - Stalin versus Trotsky
: The stages of the power stuggle
: The reasons for Stalin's success
: Collectivization and Five Year Plans - Stalin's economic policies
: Lenin's new economic policy abandoned
: The process of the collectivization of agriculture
: The fate of the kulaks
: Collectivization - success or failure?
: The industrialization of Russia - Five Year Plans
: Five Year Planning - success or failure?
: The impact of Stalin's economic policies on the Russian people
: Stalin's Russia
: The meaning of Stalinism
: The new constitution of 1936
: The education system and youth movements
: Zhenotdel and the role of women in Soviet society
: Stalin's policy regarding the Church and religion
: The arts and a cultural revolution
: The terror and the purges
: Various episodes - the Shakhty trials, the Riutin affair and the assassination of Sergei Kirov
: Purges, show trials and their victims
: The roles of Vyshinsky and Beria
: The assassination of Trotsky
: Stalin's foreign policy
: Attitudes to Russia after the First World War
: The Third International and the Communist International - Comintern
: Soviet diplomacy in the 1920s
: Relations with other world powers and involvement in the Far East
: The Anti-Comintern Pact and Stalin's search for collective security
: Involvement in the Spansih Civil War
: Soviet attitude to the Czech crisis of 1938
: The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, 1939 and its purpose
: 'The Winter War' against Finland
: 'The Great Patriotic War' - the Soviet Union and the Second World War
: 'Operation Barbarossa'
: Reasons for Hitler's decision to invade the Soviet Union in 1941
: The treatment of the Soviet people during the years of German occupation
: Collaboration and resistance
: The course of the war
: The significant battles and turning points of the war
: An estimate of Stalin as a wartime leader
: The Soviet contribution to the final Allied victory
: Soviet foreign policy and the coming of the Cold War
: Post-war conferences, Yalta and Potsdam
: The division of German and the Soviet Union's territorial gains
: The collapse of the wartime alliance
: The imposition of Communist rule over Eastern Europe
: The 'iron curtain' and the impact of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
: Berlin (1948) and other crises in East-West relations
: The Soviet Union becomes a nuclear power
: The final years of Stalin's rule
: Post-war reconstruction in the Soviet Union
: Stalinist tyranny intensifies
: Zhdanovism and the purge of Soviet culture
: Stalin's 'cult of personality'
: Anti-Semitism and the 'Doctor's Plot'
: An end of an era - the death of Josef Stalin
