Chronicles the Soviet experience from Lenin s 1917 revolution to the disintegration of the Union in Dec. 1991. Provides a post-Cold War history of the Soviets 74-year struggle to maintain an effective security policy in a hostile world without abandoning the commitment to their original internationalist ideals. Drawing on an unprecedented body of sources, the book presents an overview of Soviet history from the triumph of the Bolshevik revolution to the emergence of Stalin, the shattering victory over Hitler, Khrushchev s frustrated efforts at reform during the Cold War, the degeneration of Soviet power under Brezhnev, & the convulsive changes since 1985.

Black Earth Red Star A History of Soviet Security Policy 1917-1991

History

R. Craig Nation

Russia

Cornell U.P.

<p>The outbreak of World War I precipitated a schism in the international socialist movement that endures today. Heeding calls for "rational defense," the leading European socialist democratic parties abandoned their vision of peace and internationalism as an integral part of the struggle for social justice and set aside their view of interstate war as the clearest example of the irrational essence of competitive capitalism. Only the Zimmerwald Left, led by Lenin, continued to speak out for internationalism. R. Craig Nation utilizes sources in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Swedish to provide the first comprehensive history of the Zimmerwald Left as an international political tendency.</p>

War on War: Lenin, the Zimmerwald Left, and the Origins of Communist Internationalism

Military

Duke University Press Books

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