History of the Soviet Union. Geoffrey Hosking
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Geoffrey Hosking
A History of
the Soviet Union 1917–1991
Final edition
William Collins An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
A Fontana Press Original 1985
Revised edition published by Fontana Press 1990
This Final Edition published 1992
Copyright © Geoffrey Hosking 1985, 1990, 1992
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Source ISBN: 9780006862871
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Contents
The Soviet Union in the Second World War
The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe
4. The Making of the Soviet Union
5. The New Economic Policy and Its Political Dilemmas
9. Religion and Nationality under the Soviet State
12. Krushchev and De-Stalinization
13. Soviet Society under ‘Developed Socialism’
14. Religion, Nationality and Dissent
15. The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union
A HISTORY OF THE SOVIET UNION
Geoffrey Hosking has been Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic Studies, University of London, since 1984. Born in Scotland in 1942, he studied Russian at Cambridge and European History at Oxford before gaining his doctorate in modern Russian history on the basis of archive work done in Moscow and Leningrad. He has taught at the universities of Essex, Wisconsin, Cambridge and Cologne, and has been a Senior Research Fellow at Columbia University in New York. Amongst his other books are The Russian Constitutional Experiment: Government and Duma, 1907–1914 (1973) and Beyond Socialist Realism: Soviet Fiction since ‘Ivan Denisovich’ (1980). In 1986, A History of the Soviet Union won the Los Angeles Times history book prize. In 1988, Professor Hosking was invited to give the annual Reith Lectures; he spoke on the subject of Change in Contemporary Soviet Society.
