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Soviet Union

by Hourly History 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.

Historical Periods

Soviet Era1922–1991 CE

Genres

Court & Political Fiction

Historical people

Vladimir Lenin1870–1924 Joseph Stalin1878–1953 Nikita Khrushchev1894–1971 Mikhail Gorbachev1931–2022

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