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082			_a947.084 _bFIT
100			_aFitzpatrick, Sheila
245			_aShortest history of the Soviet Union
260			_bPicador India, _c2022 _aNew Delhi :
300			_a248 p. ; _bill., (b & w), (map), _c20 cm
365			_b599.00 _cINR _d01
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aSoviet Russia arrived in the world accidentally and departed unexpectedly. More than a hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the tumultuous history of the Soviet Union continues to fascinate us and influence global politics. Here is an irresistible entree to a sweeping history. From revolution and Lenin to Stalin's Great Terror, from World War II to Gorbachev's perestroika policies, this is a lively, authoritative distillation of seventy-five years of communist rule and the collapse of an empire. Sheila Fitzpatrick shows us the fate of non-Russian republics often left out of discussions of Soviet history, provides vivid portraits of key Soviet figures and traces the aftermath of the regime's unexpected fall, including the rise of Vladimir Putin, a product of the Soviet system but not altogether a Soviet nostalgic. The Shortest History of the Soviet Union is a small masterpiece, replete with telling detail and peppered with some very black humour.
650			_aRussia
650			_aArmenia
650			_aBolshevik Party
650			_aBorgeoisie
650			_aCommunist Party
650			_a Democracy
650			_a Eastern Europe
650			_aFactionalism
650			_aGulag
650			_aIndustrialisation
650			_aJapan
650			_aKhrushchev era
650			_aLenin,Vladimir
650			_aMarxist revolution
650			_aNon-Russians republic
650			_aOctober Revolution
650			_aRed Army
650			_aSocialism
650			_aStalinism
650			_aUkraine
650			_a Perestrouka
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