1st Edition

From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin Russia in Search of Its Identity: 1913–2023

By Vladimir N. Brovkin Copyright 2024
298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

This book integrates Soviet and post-Soviet Russian history into a coherent whole by focusing on the culture, role models, habits and behavior patterns that provide continuity between various political regimes, systems, and rulers from Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin. The unifying theme of all these periods is the central question of identity – how the Russians have defined themselves, their... Read more

Introduction

1. Smashing the State, Its Culture and Institutions: 1917–1918

2. Constructing a New Political Order

3. Old Cultural Practices in a New Form: NEP Russia 1921–1929

4. The Rise of the Stalinist Dictatorship and of a New Soviet Identity

5. The Great Patriotic War: The Fusion of the Russian and Soviet Identity

6. Post-War Stalinism 1945–1953

7. Stalinism with a Human Face: The Khrushchev Decade: 1953- 1964

8. The Brezhnev Era: Re-emergence of the Independent Thought

9. Back to European Values: Soviet Society Under Gorbachev

10. Disillusionment in Capitalism and Democracy: The Terrible 1990s

11. The New Beginning: The Putin Years

Biography

Vladimir N. Brovkin is a Russian-born American historian who was Associate Professor of Soviet History at Harvard University in the 1990s. His other books on Russian history include The Mensheviks After October, Behind the Frontlines of the Civil War, Dear Comrades, and Russia After Lenin.