Contributor
Streissguth, Thomas, 1958-
Imprint:San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, 2002.
Description256 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Includes some primary source material.
Note:The course of the Russian revolution / J. N. Westwood -- Lenin's betrayal of Russia / Dmitri Volkognov -- The Bolsheviks take power / John Reed -- The Bolsheivik victory in the Civil War / Moshe Lewin -- The creation of the USSR / M. K. Dziewanowski -- The formation of a new ruling bureaucracy / Leon Trotsky -- Joseph Stalin completes the transition to dictatorship / Theodore H. Von Laue -- Stalin launches the great terror / Ronald Hingley -- The purge of 1937 / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn -- Early attempts to manage the economy / Peter Kenez -- Lenin institutes the new economic policy / Waren Bartlett Walsh -- The centrally planned economy was inefficient / Peter Rutland -- The Soviet government's control of culture / Richard Pipes -- Improving the status of women / Walter Duranty -- Soviet and U. S. misperceptions led to the Cold War / Ronald Grigor Suny -- The Cuban Missile Crisis was a victory for socialism / Nikita Khrushchev -- Foreign adventures and domestic turmoil prompted Gorbachev's reforms / Geoffrey Hosking -- The Russian revolution had a positive impact on the world / Mikhail Gorbachev -- Appendix of documents.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-249) and index.
