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The Soviet Century
by Moshe Lewin

The Soviet Century
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Author: Moshe Lewin
Editor: Gregory Elliott
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04-25
ISBN: 1844670163
Number of pages: 407
Publisher: Verso

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Book Review: A thorough and unbiased historical analysis
Summary: 5 Stars

This book gives an excellent, unbiased account of how Soviet Communism evolved from 1917 until its end in 1991. It shows how Stalin gained sufficient power to achieve his reign of terror, and how the Terror led to the destruction of the Communist Party as any sort of positive force. He clearly describes the Khrushchev thaw and the later period of stagnation, contrasting the latter especially with Stalin's rule. A key point in the author's analysis is the transfer, not long after Stalin's death, of the secret police's vast industrial empire to the relevent civilian and military bureaucracies. Thus was ended the need for vast numbers of arrests to maintain a pool of slave labor.
Another key point is the inability of the Soviet Communist Party to develop any legitimate rules of succession. Rulers either died in place or were ousted by their enemies. By the year 1991, Russians were sufficiently aware of these issues and sufficiently powerful, through their independent organizations, to negate Gorbachev's overthrow and to ban the Communist Party as an archaic and dangerous organization.

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