The Shortest History Of The Soviet Union Sheila Fitzpatrick by Sheila Fitzpatrick 9781743822227, 1743822227 instant download after payment.

Soviet Russia arrived in the world accidentally and departed
unexpectedly. More than a hundred years after the Russian Revolution,
the tumultuous history of the Soviet Union continues to fascinate us and
influence global politics. Here is an irresistible entree to a sweeping
history. From revolution and Lenin to Stalin’s Great Terror, from World
War II to Gorbachev’s perestroika policies, this is a lively,
authoritative distillation of seventy-five years of communist rule and
the collapse of an empire. Sheila Fitzpatrick shows us the fate of
countries often left out of discussions of the Soviet age, provides
vivid portraits of key Soviet figures and traces the aftermath of the
regime’s unexpected fall: the rise of Vladimir Putin, a creature of the
Soviet system but not a Soviet nostalgic; and how China learned from the
Soviet collapse. The Shortest History of the Soviet Union is a small
masterpiece, replete with telling detail and peppered with some very
black humour.