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Fontana Press
Never has it been as important as it is today for
Westerners to understand the Soviet peoples. Until
recently histories of the USSR have tended to
concentrate on the country's political structure and its
role, as seen from the West, in international affairs.
Geoffrey Hosking, however, has been able to draw on
numerous recently published monographs and on
extensive memoir material to provide a full and vivid
picture of what it has felt like to be a Soviet citizen during
the upheavals of the twentieth century.
In describing the evolution of the Soviet Union from
its beginnings in 1917 to the present day, Professor
Hosking shows how the nature of Communist politics
has generated an unusually tightly knit ruling stratum. He
focuses on the way in which the rulers have interacted
with other strata of Soviet society, and with the various
national and religious groups. He places particular
emphasis on the changing life experience of peasants,
workers and...
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Fülszöveg
Fontana Press
Never has it been as important as it is today for
Westerners to understand the Soviet peoples. Until
recently histories of the USSR have tended to
concentrate on the country's political structure and its
role, as seen from the West, in international affairs.
Geoffrey Hosking, however, has been able to draw on
numerous recently published monographs and on
extensive memoir material to provide a full and vivid
picture of what it has felt like to be a Soviet citizen during
the upheavals of the twentieth century.
In describing the evolution of the Soviet Union from
its beginnings in 1917 to the present day, Professor
Hosking shows how the nature of Communist politics
has generated an unusually tightly knit ruling stratum. He
focuses on the way in which the rulers have interacted
with other strata of Soviet society, and with the various
national and religious groups. He places particular
emphasis on the changing life experience of peasants,
workers and professional people, showing how they
have developed their own informal practices to cope
with the political pressure on them and how, more often
than is commonly realized in the West, they have, against
the odds, resisted this pressure.
The cover shows Parade in the Red Square, Moscow' (1947) byKF. Yuon
Vissza