The Soviet Union

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Introduction. The Bolshevik Seizure and Consolidation of Power: Lenin's conception of revolution as civil war, I. Getzler The Red Army and mass mobilisation during the Russian Civil war, 1918-1920, O. Figes The Bolsheviks, razverstka and war communism, L. Lih The Bolsheviks and the peasantry: the land question during the first 8 months of Soviet rule, J. Channon Urbanisation and de-urbanisation in the Russian revolution and Civil War, D. Koenker. Stalin and Stalinism: New perspectives on Stalinism, S. Fitzpatrick Victims of the Soviet penal system in the prewar years: a first approach on the basis of archival evidence, J.A. Getty, G.T. Ritterspoorn and V.N. Zemskov 'Bab'i bunty' and peasant women's protest during collectivisation, L. Viola How the mice buried the cat: scenes from the great purges of 1937 in the Russian provinces, S. Fitzpatrick Social identity in Soviet Russia, 1934-41, S. Davies. War and Post-War Recovery: The Soviet response to surprise attack: 3 directives of 22 June 1941, J. Erikson Stalin's cabinet: the Politburo and decision making in the post-war years, Y. Gorlizki The Leningrad affair and the provincialisation of Leningrad, B.A. Ruble The standard of living of Soviet industrial workers in the immediate post-war period, 1945-48, D. Filzer. Stagnation: Khrushchev and Brezhnev: Khrushchev's image in the light of glasnost and perestroika, D. Nordlander The fall of Nikita Khrushchev, W.J. Tompson Patronage networks and coalition building in the Brezhnev era, J.P. Willerton Jr. Gorbachev and the Collapse of the Soviet Union: Brezhnev's social contract and Gorbachev's reforms, L.J. Cook Perestroika as revolution from within: an interpretation, J. Gooding The making of elections to the Congress of People's Deputies in March 1989, V. Brovkin Socialist pluralism of opinions: glasnost and policy-making under Gorbachev, T. Remington.