Readings in Russian Civilization Volume III: Soviet Russia, 1917-1963Thomas Riha University of Chicago Press, 2009 M02 15 - 378 pages "This new and enlarged version of Readings in Russian Civilization is the result of fairly extensive revisions. There are now 72 instead of 64 items; 20 of the selections are new. The first volume has undergone the least change with 3 new items, of which 2 appear in English for the first time. In the second volume there are 6 new items; all of them appear in English for the first time. The third volume has undergone the greatest revision, with 11 new items, of which 6 are newly translated from the Russian. It is the editor's hope that items left out in the new edition will not be sorely missed, and that the new selections will turn out to be useful and illuminating. The aim, throughout, has been to cover areas of knowledge and periods which had been neglected in the first edition, and to include topics which are important in the study of the Russian past and present. "The bibliographical headnotes have been enlarged, with the result that there are now approximately twice as many entries as in the old edition. New citations include not only works which have appeared since 1963, but also older books and articles which have come to the editor's attention."—From the Editor's Preface ". . . a judicious combination of seminal works and more recent commentaries that achieves the editor's purpose of stimulating curiosity and developing a point of view."—C. Bickford O'Brien, The Russian Review "These three volumes cover quite well the main periods of Russian civilization. The choice of the articles and other material is made by a competent and unbiased scholar."—Ivan A. Lopatin, Professor of Asian and Slavic Studies, University of Southern California |
Contents
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45 The Russian Village Summer 1917 | 507 |
46 Russias OneDay Parliament | 513 |
47 Days with Lenin | 517 |
48 Down with Factionalism | 534 |
59 The Party and the Arts | 693 |
60 The Adventures of an Ape | 709 |
61 My Worthless and Vicious Film | 715 |
62 The Destruction of Soviet Genetics | 718 |
63 Stalins Coffin | 732 |
64 Pilfering the Peoples Wealth | 736 |
65 From New York to Los Angeles | 742 |
66 Is the Soviet Union a Welfare State? | 756 |
49 The History of a Soviet Collective Farm | 542 |
50 A Day in Magnitogorsk | 567 |
51 Socialist Gold | 589 |
52 The Soviet Constitution | 600 |
53 On the Constitution | 615 |
54 The Societ System of Government | 624 |
55 I Speak for the Silent | 646 |
56 The Purge Trials | 663 |
57 The Blockade of Leningrad | 674 |
58 The Second World War | 685 |
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