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Soviet Union
Book 8 in the History of Russia series.
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The Soviet Union surveys the state created after revolution and civil war and dissolved in 1991. It follows Lenin’s consolidation of power, Stalin’s forced industrialisation and collectivisation, political terror and the immense wartime struggle against Nazi Germany.
The book then examines superpower rivalry, de-Stalinisation, economic stagnation and reform under Mikhail Gorbachev. It connects ideology and central planning with everyday life, national diversity and coercion, explaining why the system achieved rapid transformation yet proved unable to renew itself peacefully.
