Routledge Library Editions: Soviet Politics collects together 25 previously out-of-print titles to form an important reference work on the state of politics in the Soviet Union from its beginnings up to Gorbachev. It looks at the Communist Party, local government, the Politburo, the rulers of the Soviet Union and their vying for power, the means of control, local politics, foreign policy and much more besides.
By Hewlett Johnson
April 12, 2024
Soviet Success (1947) deals with Soviet Russia after the Second World War. The author met Stalin, Molotov and other leading personalities in Russia, and here records his conversations with them in full detail. The book looks at the destruction caused by the war, and the state of the economy and ...
By Anthony D'Agostino
April 12, 2024
Soviet Succession Struggles (1988) is a key study of the history, nature and development of Soviet politics and politicians from the earliest days of Soviet Russia up to the rise of Gorbachev. It examines the power struggles between opposing factions within the Soviet leadership, and identifies two...
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By Richard Crockatt, Steve Smith
April 12, 2024
The Cold War Past and Present (1987) analyses the generally antagonistic postwar relations between the Soviet Union and the West, particularly America. Following the uneasy wartime alliance, Russia’s tightening grip on Eastern Europe and the Berlin Blockade ushered in the first of the ‘cold wars’, ...
By Albert P. van Goudoever
April 12, 2024
The Limits of Destalinization in the Soviet Union (1986) examines the forms, aspects and significance of the phenomenon of rehabilitation in the Soviet Union between 1953 and 1980, when victims of Stalin’s terror were released from camps or posthumously rehabilitated. It describes the political ...
By John Löwenhardt, James R. Ozinga, Erik van Ree
April 12, 2024
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo (1992) is the definitive history and political analysis of this institution. Extensive use of new Soviet sources permitted the authors to provide a comprehensive analysis of the way in which the Politburo operated and a sociological examination of its ...
By Michael Kettle
April 12, 2024
The Road to Intervention (1988) uses rarely-seen British government papers to analyse the position of the Allied and Russian governments in the last year of the First World War, as the Russian revolution ended their participation in the war and the Western Allies feared a huge German offensive in ...
By Henry Noel Brailsford
April 12, 2024
The Russian Workers’ Republic (1921) is a result of the author’s two-month travels through Soviet Russia. Moving freely from cities to villages, he provides a snapshot of Russian politics and society, industry and military, at a crucial point in 1920 before access for foreigners became more ...
By Ronald J. Hill, Peter Frank
April 12, 2024
The Soviet Communist Party (1986) provides a concise and accessible description, analysis and assessment of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and its place in the Soviet political system. It covers the Party’s structures, membership, personnel and functions, and relations with the ...
By Erich Thiel
April 12, 2024
The Soviet Far East (1957) examines the Soviet economic and political development of the Russian Far East between Lake Baikal and the Pacific, as it gained importance as the geographic base of Soviet power in the Far Eastern theatre of international politics and strategy....
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By Simon Wolin, Robert M. Slusser
April 12, 2024
The Soviet Secret Police (1957) depicts the main aspects of the development, structure and functions of the secret police of the Soviet Union. Much of the information contained within comes from the personal testimony of Soviet citizens who had experienced various activities of the secret police, ...
By Ronald D. Humble
April 12, 2024
The Soviet Space Programme (1988) presents a comprehensive over-view of the Soviet space programme from its beginnings up to the end of the 1980s. One important theme explored is the degree to which the Soviet space programme was oriented towards military capabilities. The book concludes that the ...
By Roberta Goren, Jillian Becker
April 12, 2024
The Soviet Union and Terrorism (1984) examines the extent of Soviet involvement in international terrorism, and the aims and objectives of Soviet foreign policy. It looks at the evidence of changing Soviet attitudes to terrorism from 1917 to the 1980s evidenced in official and semi-official ...