TY - BOOK AU - Dziewanowski,M.K. TI - A history of Soviet Russia and its aftermath SN - 0132607468 AV - DK246 .D9 1997 U1 - 947.084 20 PY - 1997/// CY - New Jersey PB - Prentice Hall KW - Soviet Union KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: 1. The Geopolitical Personality of Russia and Its Hegemonial Sphere -- 2. The Russian State Tradition -- 3. The Russian Revolutionary Tradition -- 4. The Russo-Japanese War and the Revolution of 1905 -- 5. The Aftermath of the Revolution of 1905: The Constitutional Experiment -- 6. World War I and the Revolutions of 1917 -- 7. Utopia at the Creation -- 8. The Ordeal of the Civil War, 1918-1921 -- 9. From War Communism to the New Economic Policy -- 10. Between the Cominterm and the Narkomindel: Early Soviet Foreign Policy -- 11. The Formation of the USSR and Lenin's Death -- 12. The Struggle for Lenin's Mantle: The Stalin-Trotsky Controversy -- 13. The Industrialization Debate and the Five-Year Plans -- 14. The Purges -- 15. A New Nationality Policy and the Soviet Cultural Revolution -- 16. From Isolation to Collective Security -- 17. Prelude to World War II -- 18. "The Great Patriotic War" -- 19. The aftermath of the war: rehabilitation and retrenchment -- 20. Stalin's death and the Twentieth party Congress -- 21. The Khrushchev years: the upward trend -- 22. Khrushchev's decline and fall -- 23. Soviet Russia under Brezhnev's rule -- 24. Gorbachev: Glasnost and Perestroika -- 25. The collapse of the Soviet Union -- 26. The Commonwealth of Independent States (C.I.S.) and the Russian Federation; 900-999 N2 - Appropriate for sophomore/graduate-level courses in History of Soviet Russia, and Russia Since the Revolution. This book offers coverage of the last phase of the Tsarist regime, the ideololgical roots and origins of the Soviet regime, its establishment in power at the close of 1917, its evolution up to 1991, and its disintegration. ER -