The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Book Overview

In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries came to power in the war-torn Russian Empire in a way that defied all predictions, including their own. Scarcely a lifespan later, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed as accidentally as it arose. The decades between witnessed drama on an epic scale--the chaos and hope of revolution, famines and purges, hard-won victory in history's most destructive war, and worldwide geopolitical conflict, all entwined around...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231207174
• ISBN13: 9780231207171
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.8" x 5.0"