About Russia, Its Revolutions, Its Development and Its Present, ,

Author

Reiman, Michal

Year

2016

Publisher

Peter Lang AG

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-3-63167-136-8

Link

Last Update

23-Sep-2025

Keywords

History

Description

Although a scattering of memoirs and other literature emerged during the period between the wars, it was in the 1950s that the pace of international research into the history of the Soviet Union visibly hastened. Its course was serpentine, with a scope of investigation that reached well beyond the dictatorial, later totalitarian, turn taken by the political powers when Russia’s traditional government and social system collapsed in 1917. State and social structures, the economy, personal relationships, science and culture – the elements which a country’s national life is constructed of – were placed upon fresh foundations in Soviet Russia and the USSR....