Russia in the Twentieth Century

David R. Marples is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada. He is author of twelve books on contemporary Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, including Lenin's Revolution: Russia 1917-1921 (2000) and The Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991 (2004).

ForewordGlossaryChapter 1: From Tsarism to Revolution: 1894-1917Chapter 2: The October Revolution: 1917-1921Chapter 3: NEP and the Rise of Stalin: 1921-1928Chapter 4: Collectivization, Industrialization, and the Great Purge, 1929-1940Chapter 5: The Great Patriotic War and Aftermath: 1941-1953Chapter 6: Khrushchevs Reforms, 1953-1964; and Postwar Foreign Policy Chapter 7: The Brezhnev Regime and its Successors: 1964-1984Chapter 8: Gorbachev, Glasnost, and Perestroika: 1985-1991Chapter 9: From Yeltsin to Putin: Russias Decline and Recovery, 1992-2008BibliographyIndex