Ebook: The Soviet experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the successor states

pt. I. Crisis and revolution. The imperial legacy -- The double revolution -- Socialism and civil war -- Nationalism and revolution -- pt. II. Retreat and rebuilding. The evolution of the dictatorship -- Socialism in one country -- NEP society -- Culture wars -- pt. III. Stalinism. The Stalin revolution -- Stalin's industrial revolution -- Building Stalinism -- Culture and society in the socialist motherland -- Collective security and the coming of World War II -- The Great Fatherland War -- The big chill : the Cold War begins -- Late Stalinism at home and abroad -- pt. IV. Reform and stagnation. From autocracy to oligarchy : Khrushchev and the politics of reform -- The paradoxes of Brezhnev's long reign -- pt. V. Reform and revolution. Reform and the road to revolution -- The second Russian republic and the near abroad.