History of the Soviet Union
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Geoffrey Hosking. History of the Soviet Union
A History of. the Soviet Union 1917–1991
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Contents
A HISTORY OF THE SOVIET UNION
Maps
Preface
Preface to Second Edition
Administrative Divisions
1. Introduction
2. The October Revolution
3. War Communism
4. The Making of the Soviet Union
5. The New Economic Policy and its Political Dilemmas
6. Revolution from Above
7. Stalin’s Terror
8. Stalinist Society
9. Religion and Nationality under the Soviet State
10. The Great Fatherland War
11. The Last Years of Stalin
12. Khrushchev and de-Stalinization
13. Soviet Society under ‘Developed Socialism’
14. Religion, Nationality and Dissent
15. The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union
Chronology
Statistical Tables
Bibliography
Index
About the Publisher
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Geoffrey Hosking
Final edition
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The tsarist monarchy was finally overthrown in the midst of the First World War. Major wars, of course, raise all the stakes in domestic politics, since survival itself is at issue. Furthermore, the government fought this one before a Duma which proved watchful and at times bitterly critical, while the press, though under wartime censorship, remained freer than at any time before 1905. Whether the constitutional monarchy founded by the October Manifesto could have survived if there had been no war is an open question. What is certain is that the war caught it at a very vulnerable moment, when it had not yet fully established itself in the eyes of the public, yet was already suffering from the exposure to fierce criticism which civil liberties made possible. Bloody Sunday had weakened the reputation of the tsar. His standing was now further undermined by rumours–bandied around in the press though never substantiated–that the royal family was being compromised by a ‘holy man’ of dubious credentials, Rasputin, and that the court even had treacherous connections with the enemy, Germany. As the normally restrained Milyukov put it in a famous Duma speech of November 1916, ‘Is this stupidity or is it treason?’
Against the background of such public accusations, the more or less normal difficulties of war, military defeat, shortages of guns and food, became magnified into matters involving the very survival of the monarchy.
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