Suchergebnisse

The revolution, 1917-1921 -- New economic policies, 1921-1929 -- The first five-year plan -- High Stalinism -- A Great and Patriotic War -- The nadir, 1945-1953 -- The age of Khrushchev -- Real, existing socialism -- Failed reforms -- Leap into the unknown -- Illiberal democracy -- Putin returns -- Chronology

French Jews -- Jews of the Russian Empire and of the Soviet Union -- Hungarian Jews -- National Socialism and Jews -- Propaganda -- What to to do with the Jews? -- Ghettos in Poland, 1939-1941 -- The Holocaust in the Soviet Union -- The Romanian Holocaust -- Germany, 1942 -- The Holocaust in Western Europe -- The last island: Hungary, 1932-1945 -- Extermination camps -- Afterthoughts

In this comprehensive study of the early development of the Soviet propaganda system, Peter Kenez describes how the Bolshevik Party went about reaching the Russian people. Throughout this book, Kenez is more concerned with the experience of the Soviet people than with high-level politics. The book is both a major contribution to our understanding of the genius of the Soviet state, and of the nature of propaganda in the modern world