For History, Politics and Military students and people interested in European political life and European history

Information Points                            

• Authoritative  - written by a very experienced 

internationally recognised authority

•  A growing market of IB students and undergraduate history students and students taking college or university-based history first year degree courses
• Growing number of politics students.

A must have book for all students studying this area.     

 

In Focus-   A Studymates Series

Who else wants to be able analyse the development of Modern Russia?
This expert study guide will meet the needs of all students whether they are studying the field with a history/politics curriculum, as part of a wider history programme, or as a distinct subject within military studies.
It will help students to write better essays, to speak with more authority in tutorials and seminars, and to prepare for examinations and assessments with more confidence.
This book includes details on how to:

• the rewriting of Russian history
• Russia under the Tsars
• Marxism, Leninism and the early Bolshevik Party
• The Crucible of Russia’s Problems 1905-1917
• The February Revolution and the Provisional Government
• The October Revolution and the establishment of Bolshevik Power
• The Russian Civil War
• The economy and the consolidation of communism
• The Lenin dictatorship and the rise of Stalin
• Stalin’s economic progress
• The Great Terror
• Conquest and subversion
• Stalinism and the Cold War          

 

Market

All students of politics/history in colleges and universities

College and university central and department libraries

Teachers, tutors and lecturers

Public and reference libraries

General readers

Author
Dr Robert Johnson

Foreword

Professor Chris Read
Price     
£10.99
Format
Paperback,                    215 x 135mm, 160pp  
ISBN                                9781842851449

Territory
World all language
2nd edition,
first edition
ISBN:  1-84285-039-3

 

About the Author
Robert Johnson BA(Hons) PhD, is a graduate of Warwick and Exeter Universities. He is a successful lecturer at Bath University and author of a number of books. He is married with infant children and in the summer likes to go on mountain expeditions.