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The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia

History

Daniels, Robert V.

Americas

Yale University Press

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.

History is always full of surprises as it unfolds before us. The Soviet Union, for decades a seemingly frozen monolith of totalitarian rigidity and paranoid bellicosity, suddenly finds itself under a leader in the person of Mikhail Gorbachev who calls for "radical restructuring," openness," and even a "revolution." Outsiders justly wonder if this means a new era of reform, or whether the nature of the Soviet system and its historical roots makes real change impossible. This book is based on a series of articles that the author wrote during the first two years after Gorbachev assumed the Soviet leadership in March 1985.

Is Russia Reformable?: Change and Resistance from Stalin to Gorbachev

Africa

Routledge

The End of the Communist Revolution

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

The USA has been going through a new kind of revolution, which though it did not literally overthrow the government, transformed racial, gender, and other social relationships, and bequeathed the deep divisions now felt in the nation's politics and culture.

The Fourth Revolution: Transformations in American Society from the Sixties to the Present

The USA has been going through a new kind of revolution, which though it did not literally overthrow the government, transformed racial, gender, and other social relationships, and bequeathed the deep divisions now felt in the nation's politics and culture.

The Fourth Revolution

Daniels (history, U. of Vermont) interprets the conflicts of 1968 as more cultural than political. He offers thorough and balanced description of such events as the Tet offensive, the Paris uprising, the King assassination, the Haight-Ashbury counterculture, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and the Soviet occupation of Prague. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Year Of Heroic Guerr

Basic Books

This anthology of documents and essays examines the transformation and ultimate demise of communism in the former Soviet Union during the Gorbachev era. The selections address cultural and social ferment, political events, economic and technological change, military, diplomacy, ideology, and resurgence of nationalism and ethnic conflicts.

Soviet Communism from Reform to Collapse (Problems in European Civilization)

Cengage Learning'

The Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Harvard University Press

Robert V. Daniels' book Russia: The Roots of Confrontation, first published in 1985, examines the historical contrasts between East and West and elucidates the Russian enigma. The book springs from the thesis that Russia's national character and its international relations can be understood only in light of the traumas and triumphs, privation and privileges that the country weathered in its unique past under the tsars and the Soviets. The author lays to rest the mistaken American view that Soviet behavior was simply the application of Marxist revolutionary ideology. The character of the Soviet system as it evolved after the Revolution is shown to be a synthesis of revolutionary rhetoric, dictatorial pragmatism, and traditional Russian kinds of behavior. Daniels points out that no part of the world is more alien to Americans than Russia, and he evokes parallels and contrasts with the American experience to clarify the driving forces behind this ill-understood superpower.

Russia : The Roots of Confrontation

Russia

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The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia

The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia

Is Russia Reformable?: Change and Resistance from Stalin to Gorbachev

The End of the Communist Revolution

The Fourth Revolution: Transformations in American Society from the Sixties to the Present

The Fourth Revolution

Year Of Heroic Guerr

Soviet Communism from Reform to Collapse (Problems in European Civilization)

The Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia

Russia : The Roots of Confrontation