New Press
The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia
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- Moshe Lewin
- New Press
- Paperback
- 9781565841253
- 9.22 X 6.15 X 1.1 inches
- 1.3 pounds
- History > Russia & the Former Soviet Union
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
In this now-classic book, Moshe Lewin traces the transformation of Russian society and the Russian political system in the period between the two world wars, a transformation that was to lead to Stalinism in the 1930s. Lewin focuses on the changes stemming from war, revolution, civil war, and industrialization, and he discusses such topics as rural society and religion in the twentieth century; the background of Soviet collectivization; Soviet prewar policies of agricultural procurement; the kolkhoz and the muzhik; Leninism and Bolshevism; industrial relations during the five-year plans of 1928-1941; and the social background of Stalinism. Through this comprehensive approach to understanding the origins and problems of Stalinism, Lewin makes a significant contribution to the study of Russia's social history before the revolution as well as in the Soviet period.
Author Bio
Moshe Lewin was born in Wilno, Poland in 1921. He graduated with his B. A. from the Tel Aviv University, Israel, in 1961 and earned his Ph.D. from Sorbonne, Paris, in 1964.
He was Director of Study Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, from 1965 to 1966 and senior fellow of Columbia University from 1967 to 1968. Appointed research professor of the Birmingham University, England, in 1968, he held that position until 1978 when he came to the United States and was appointed professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania.
One of the most influential scholars of Russian and Soviet history in the world, Lewin authored many books, among them
- Russian Peasant and Soviet Power (1968),
- Lenin’s Last Struggle (1968),
- Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates (1974),
- The Making of the Soviet System (1985), The Gorbachev Phenomenon (1988),
- Stalinism and the Seeds of Soviet Reform : the Debates of the 1960’s (1991),
- Russia–USSR–Russia : the Drive and Drift of a Superstate (1995), and
- Stalinism and Nazism : Dictatorships in Comparison (co-edited with Ian Kershaw, 1997).
- He retired and was elected Professor Emeritus at Penn in 1995.
Source: University Penn Archives and Records Center
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