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Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Chronology -- Who's who -- Maps -- PART I: The background -- 1. The background -- Socialism before 1917 -- Rus to Russia -- The United States of America before 1914 -- Europe -- The United States of America after 1914 -- Russia -- President Woodrow Wilson -- The Marxists -- The October Revolution and Lenin's Revolution from above -- The impact of the October Revolution on Europe and the rest of the world -- Stalin emerges as the leader, then autocrat and then despot -- The United States and the Soviet Union before 1941 -- The United Kingdom's relations with the Soviet Union -- Soviet foreign policy in the 1930s -- Was there an alternative to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact? -- Operation Barbarossa (Red Beard), 22 June 1941 -- PART II: Descriptive analysis -- 2. Conflict -- The Second Front -- Poland -- 3. Operation Unthinkable and Operation Pincher: World War III? -- Could the Soviet Union have occupied Western and Southern Europe in 1945? -- 4. Atomic diplomacy -- 5. Eastern Europe -- Poland -- Hungary -- East Germany (German Democratic Republic) -- Czechoslovakia -- Romania -- Bulgaria -- Yugoslavia -- Albania -- British policy in the Balkans -- Greece -- US policy in the region -- 6. The Middle East -- Turkey -- Iran -- 7. East Asia and Indo-China -- China -- Korea -- Vietnam -- Laos -- Malaya -- 8. Bretton Woods, the IMF and the World Bank -- US capital for the Soviet Union? -- 9. Conflict over Germany and the Soviet Union in a new light -- The Soviet Union in a new light -- 10. Decisions which led to division -- Containment -- 11. The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan -- 12. The Soviet response -- The Cominform -- Tito expelled -- The Berlin Blockade -- 13. Espionage -- Political.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword to the fourth edition -- Map and list of figures -- Chronology -- Who's who -- Part 1 The context -- 1 Introduction: the problem -- Part 2 Analysis -- 2 Early years -- 3 The October revolution, state capitalism, war communism and the civil war, 1917-21 -- War communism -- 4 The new economic policy (NEP), 1921-28 -- Exit Trotsky and Zinoviev -- The Urals-Siberian method -- 5 The thirties -- The first FYP -- Collectivisation -- Famine -- The second FYP -- The murder of Kirov -- Stalinism emerges -- The Great Terror -- The third FYP -- Foreign policy -- Culture -- Society -- 6 The Great Fatherland War, 1941-45 -- The economy -- Culture -- The party -- The grand alliance -- 7 High Stalinism, 1945-53 -- Eastern Europe -- The Leningrad affair -- Economic policy -- Currency reform -- Meeting Mao -- The Korean war -- Eastern Europe -- The Cold war emerges -- Science -- Culture -- Spies -- The Doctors' plot and the Mingrelian affair -- Part 3 Assessment -- 8 Stalin: Personality and power -- Conclusion -- 9 The judgement -- 10 The legacy -- Foreign and security policy -- Empire -- Putin -- Part 4 Documents -- Part 4. Documents -- Document 1: The party -- Document 2: The right deviation -- Document 3: Dizzy with success -- Document 4: Harsh realities -- Document 5: The breakneck speed of industrialisation -- Document 6: Famine and the nouveaux riches -- Document 7: Fulfilment of the principal goals of the Stalinist Five-Year Plans, 1928-50 -- Document 8: Mandelstam's poem about Stalin (November 1933) -- Document 9: (A) Interrogation techniques -- Document 10: Bukharin -- Document 11: Operational order No. 00447: 30 July 1937 -- Document 12: Molotov -- Document 13: Stepan Podlubny's diary -- Document 14: Stalin the miracle-worker -- Document 15: The Stalin cult blossoms.

Origins of the Cold War -- The Cold War -- To the brink and back 1953-1962 -- The US and the Soviet Union in the third world -- The Sino-Soviet schism -- Cuba, Vietnam and Indonesia -- The war of cultures -- The Prague Spring -- Detente 1969-1979 -- The Islamic challenge: Iran and Afghanistan -- Cambodia-Kampuchea -- Post-detente 1979-1985 -- Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War -- The judgement -- The post-Cold War world.

"The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union examines the strengths, weaknesses, and contradictions of the first Marxist state, and reassesses the role of power, authority and legitimacy in Soviet politics. Including first-person accounts, anecdotes, illustrations and diagrams to illustrate key concepts, McCauley provides a seminal history of this twentieth-century Superpower."--BOOK JACKET

"The conflict between Russia and America shaped the world for over four decades. Both were universalist powers--they wanted every country in the world to copy their model of government and economy. They could not rest until the other side had been vanquished, and until the mid-1980s this included the prospect of nuclear war. Martin McCauley looks at the epic struggle between the two superpowers that put everyone in danger. The book gives a succinct summary of the main turning points in the conflict; looks at how the whole world was sucked into the Cold War; shows how the arms race eventually bankrupted Russia; and discusses whether or not America and Russia have learnt anything from this confrontation."--Jacket

Who's Who in Russia since 1900is a unique reference guide which examines the leading political, economic, cultural, military, scientific and sporting personalities from 1900 to the present. Through analysis of figures such as Stalin, Brezhnev, Khrushchev, Yeltsin, Ratushinskaya and Sakharov, a comprehensive portrait of Russian and Soviet society in this era emerges. The book takes the reader up to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond. It provides: - detailed biographical information on each leading figure - bibliographical references with entries as an aid to further research - a comprehensive glossary of Russian terms, concepts and institutions and a useful chronology of events - an accessible and user-friendly A-Z layout - an invaluable guide for students, teachers, researchers, and the general reader alike.