The first socialist society: a history of the soviet union from within /
Geoffrey Hosking
- Enlarged ed.
- Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univversity Press, 1990.
- 556 p.: ill., 24cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:Introduction -- The October Revolution -- War communism -- The Making of the Soviet Union -- The New economic policy and its political dilemas -- Revolution from above -- Stalin's terror -- Stalinist society -- Religion and nationality under the Soviet State -- The Great fatherland war -- The Last years of Stalin -- Khrushchev and de-Stalinization -- Soviet society under "Developed Socialism" -- Religion, nationality and dissent -- The Soviet Union in the 1980's: an impass and its causes -- Chronology -- Statistical tables -- Maps.