Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
The Background: Thaw and Frost — History Before Perestroika (1956–85)....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-10
Russia Before the Bolshevik Revolution....Pages 11-26
The New Economic Policy and the Alternatives to Stalinism....Pages 27-46
The Repression of the Peasantry....Pages 47-58
Stalin and his Entourage....Pages 59-73
Stalinism and Soviet Society....Pages 74-87
The Stalinist System....Pages 88-99
The Second World War....Pages 100-114
Lenin, the Civil War and its Aftermath (1917–22)....Pages 115-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
The Politburo and Soviet History (Spring 1985–Spring 1988)....Pages 129-149
The Politburo and Soviet History: the XIX Party Conference and After....Pages 150-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
The Professional Historians....Pages 167-179
The Crisis in History Teaching....Pages 180-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Truth and Bias in the New History....Pages 187-192
Conclusions: History and the Reconstruction of Soviet Society....Pages 193-203
Back Matter....Pages 204-232