a ISBN 0-7377-0928-6

a ISBN 0-7377-09294-

a Original cataloging agency

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number DK266

b Item number .R55 2002

a Dewey Classification 947.084

a Title The rise of the Soviet Union /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Tom Streissguth, book editor.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc San Diego, CA :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Greenhaven Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2002.

a Extent 256 p. ;

c Dimensions 23 cm.

a Series statement Turning points.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-249) and index.

a Formatted contents note Foreword -- Introduction -- Revolution and its aftermath -- Course of the Russian Revolution / J.N. Westwood ; Lenin's betrayal of Russia / Dmitri Volkogonov ; Bolsheviks take power / John Reed ; Bolshevik victory in the civil war / Moshe Lewin -- Building the new state -- Creation of the USSR / M.K. Dziewanowski ; Formation of a new ruling bureaucracy / Leon Trotsky ; Joseph Stalin completes the transition to dictatorship / Theodore H. Von Laue ; Stalin launches the great terror / Ronald Hingley ; Purge of 1937 / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn -- Building socialism -- Early attempts to manage the economy / Peter Kenez ; Lenin institutes the new economic policy / Warren Bartlett Walsh ; Centrally planned economy was inefficient / Peter Rutland ; Soviet government's control of culture / Richard Pipes ; Improving the status of women / Walter Duranty -- Soviet Union and the world -- Soviet and U.S. mnisperceptions led to the Cold War / Ronald Grigor Suny ; Cuban Missile Crisis was a victory for socialism / Nikita Khrushchev ; Foreign adventures and domestic turmoil prompted Gorbachev's reforms / Geoffrey Hosking ; Russian Revolution had a positive impact on the world / Mikhail Gorbachev.

a Personal name Streissguth Thomas

d Dates associated with a name 1958

a Uniform title Turning points (Greenhaven Press)