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The Soviet Colossus
Michael Kort
其他書名
The Rise and Fall of the USSR
出版M.E. Sharpe, 1993
主題History / GeneralHistory / Europe / GeneralHistory / Russia / GeneralHistory / Russia / Soviet EraReference / GeneralSocial Science / Poverty & Homelessness
ISBN08733267689780873326766
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3gHyzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"The Soviet Colossus" is an introduction to 20th-century Soviet history within the context of Russian history as a whole. Kort begins by showing how and why the Tsars developed powerful centralised institutions that undermined the political, civil and economic freedoms of the Russian people. He then goes on to explain how the Bolsheviks' attempt to build socialism in a backward country produced the strong centralised bureaucracy that was characteristic of the Soviet Union. The post-Stalin years of half-way reforms are surveyed for new insights. In the concluding chapters Kort discusses Gorbachev's place in the continuum of Russian and Soviet history, and his role in unleashing the force that finally toppled the Soviet colossus.