TY - GEN AU - Reiman,Michal TI - About Russia, Its Revolutions, Its Development and Its Present SN - 978-3-653-06473-5 PY - 2016///0729 PB - Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group KW - European history KW - bicssc KW - History KW - Germany KW - Joseph Stalin KW - Leon Trotsky KW - Moscow KW - Soviet Union N1 - Open Access N2 - The author analyzes modern Russian history from a new perspective. Due to the ideological heritage of the XIXth and XXth centuries, the social settings of the sociopolitical history of the USSR (1917–1945) have not been fully identified. Detailed examination of ideological and political concepts shows that the revolution of 1917 became not a middle class, proletarian movement, but rather a plebeian one. The misjudgment by the new power enabled growth but caused tremendous losses of human lives and material damages. Socialization of economy and strict centralization led to a new social structure and established terror as an instrument for social reorganization. WWII revealed the necessity of a correction of these developments, but the events of the Cold War circumvented any further considerations UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45639/1/650055.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30041/1/650055.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34465 ER -