Hosking, Geoffrey,

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.

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