D'Agostino Anthony. The Russian Revolution, 1917-1945

Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2010. — 171 p. — ISBN10: 0313386226; ISBN13: 978-0313386220.For students and scholars of the Russian Revolution, there are pivotal questions that merit careful, comprehensive consideration: why did the Tsarist regime unravel in revolution? Why did the Bolsheviks come to power rather than some other party? How did Stalin—rather than a more popular and respected leader—win the mantle of Lenin and gain leadership of the ruling party? How should Stalin's regime be judged by subsequent generations of Russians, and in the context of world history? In Russian Revolution, 1917-1945, author Anthony D'Agostino discusses all these questions. His suggestions for further reading range over decades of writing on Soviet subjects and cite classics, revisionist works, curiosities, and studies done during and since the Gorbachev years. The book explores topics including the modernization of the Tsarist Russian state, World War I, the revolutionary project of Soviet Communism, the nationalist transformation of Soviet Communism under international pressures, the "Big Drive" to modernize Russia by force, and the external threat of fascism.Land and People
The Intelligentsia and the West
Russia the Modernizing Old Regime
The Empire Goes to War
1917
The Civil War and War Communism, – 1918-1921
From Lenin to Stalin, – 1921-1928
National Bolshevism in World Affairs
Collectivization of Agriculture and Five-Year Plan, – 1929-1933
The Great Purge and the Path to War
The Fate of the Revolution
The Hitler-Stalin Pact, – 1939-1941
World War II: Russia versus Germany
A Debate: Was Stalin Necessary?Suggestions for Further Reading