The Cambridge History of Russia, Volume 3: The Twentieth Century

The Cambridge History of Russia #3

by Ronald Grigor Suny (Editor)

The third volume of The Cambridge History of Russia provides an authoritative political, intellectual, social and cultural history of the trials and triumphs of Russia and the Soviet Union during the twentieth century. It encompasses not only the ethnically Russian part of the country but also the non-Russian peoples of the tsarist and Soviet multinational states and of the post-Soviet republics. Beginning with the revolutions of the early twentieth century, chapters move through the 1920s to the Stalinist 1930s, World War II, the post-Stalin years and the decline and collapse of the USSR. The contributors attempt to go beyond the divisions that marred the historiography of the USSR during the Cold War to look for new syntheses and understandings. The volume is also the first major undertaking by historians and political scientists to use the new primary and archival sources that have become available since the break-up of the USSR.

Genres: History, Russia, Russian History, Nonfiction, Soviet History

Hardcover

First published December 1, 2006

About the author

Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan and professor emeritus of political science and history at the University of Chicago.

Reviews

[فلاح رحيم · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ronald Grigor Suny's long introduction to this book about the Western approaches to the history of 20th century Russia is a masterpiece in historical methodology.

[alex lamy]

slayed

[Dimitrii Ivanov · Rating 5 out of 5]

A who's who of the 20th century Russian / Soviet studies, with some diversity of approaches and material but generally high level - both of scholarship and the viewpoint (i.e., no minor case studies here). Helpful bibliography.