The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 3, The Twentieth Century

A major history of twentieth-century Russia by leading scholars in the field.

Ronald Grigor Suny (Edited by)

9781107660991, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 March 2015

884 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 5.3 cm, 1.3 kg

'The new Cambridge History of Russia is an outstanding scholarly resource, and a brilliant example of the capacities and constraints of its format. … this volume on the twentieth century, like its companion volumes, is an impressive and authoritative work. It can be savoured by experts, and its various introductory treatments can be strongly recommended to undergraduates and MA students.' The Slavonic and East European Review

The third volume of The Cambridge History of Russia provides an authoritative political, intellectual, social and cultural history of the trials and triumphs of Russia and the Soviet Union during the twentieth century. It encompasses not only the ethnically Russian part of the country but also the non-Russian peoples of the tsarist and Soviet multinational states and of the post-Soviet republics. Beginning with the revolutions of the early twentieth century, chapters move through the 1920s to the Stalinist 1930s, World War II, the post-Stalin years and the decline and collapse of the USSR. The contributors attempt to go beyond the divisions that marred the historiography of the USSR during the Cold War to look for new syntheses and understandings. The volume is also the first major undertaking by historians and political scientists to use the new primary and archival sources that have become available since the break-up of the USSR.

1. Reading Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century Ronald Grigor Suny
2. Russia's fin de siècle, 1900–14 Mark D. Steinberg
3. World War I, 1914–18 Mark von Hagen
4. The Revolutions of 1917–18 S. A. Smith
5. The Russian civil war, 1917–22 Donald J. Raleigh
6. Building a new state and society: NEP, 1921–8 Alan Ball
7. Stalinism, 1928–40 David R. Shearer
8. Patriotic war, 1941 to 1945 John Barber and Mark Harrison
9. Stalin and his circle Oleg Khlevniuk and Yoram Gorlizki
10. The Khrushchev period, 1953–64 William Taubman
11. The Brezhnev era Stephen E. Hanson
12. The Gorbachev era Archie Brown
13. The Russian Republic. Michael McFaul
14. Economic and demographic change: Russia's age of economic extremes Peter Gatrell
15. Transforming peasants in the twentieth century: dilemmas of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet development Esther Kingston-Mann
16. Workers and industrialization Lewis H. Siegelbaum
17. Women and the Soviet state Barbara Engel
18. Non-Russians in the Soviet Union and after Jeremy Smith
19. The western republics: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and the Baltics Serhy Yekelchyk
20. Science, technology, and the intelligentsia David Holloway
21. Culture, 1900–45 James von Geldern
22. The politics of culture, 1945–2000 Josephine Woll
23. Comitern and Soviet foreign policy, 1919–41 Jonathan Haslam
24. Moscow's foreign policy, 1945–2000: identities, institutions, and interests Ted Hopf
25. The Soviet Union and the road to communism Lars T. Lih.

Subject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], European history [HBJD]