Lewin, Moshe,  1921- <br/><br/>
The Soviet century  [electronic resource] / 
Moshe Lewin ; edited by Gregory Elliott. 
 - London ;  Verso,  c2005. 
 - ix, 416 p. ;  25 cm. 
 - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
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<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Stalin knows where he wants to get to--and is getting there -- 'Autonomization versus federation' (1922-3) -- 'Cadres into heretics' -- The party and its apparaty -- Social flux and 'systemic paranoia' -- The impact of collectivization -- Between legality and bacchanalia -- How did Stalin rule? -- The purges and their 'rationale' -- The scale of the purges -- The camps and the industrial empire of the NKVD -- Endgame -- An agrarian despotism? -- 'E pur, si muove!' -- The KGB and the political opposition -- The avalanche of urbanization -- The 'administrators' : bruised but thriving -- Some leaders -- Kosygin and Andropov -- Lenin's time and worlds -- Backwardness and relapse -- Modernity with a twist -- Urbanization : successes and failures -- Labour force and demography : a conundrum -- The bureaucratic maze -- 'Telling the light from the shade'? -- What was the Soviet system? 
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<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>2027/heb05271  hdl 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Soviet Union--History.