{"product_id":"twentieth-century-russia-ninth-edition-9780813336725","title":"Twentieth Century Russia: Ninth Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eDonald Treadgoldwas one of the most distinguished Russian historians of his generation. His Twentieth Century Russia  a standard text in colleges and universities for several decades has been regularly revised and expanded to reflect new events and scholarship. The present revision  by Professor Herbert Ellison  contains a major chapter on the Yeltsin era  and brings the Russian story to the final year of the century.Twice in the twentieth century the collapse of the Russian state and empire has been followed by an effort to build a democracy on the Western model. The first effort succumbed within a few months to Lenins communist revolution  whose ideas and institutions dominated the history of Russia  and eventually much of the world  during the succeeding seventy-four years. In August 1991  an attempt by Soviet leaders to suppress democratic and nationalist movements unleashed by the Gorbachev reforms  and already victorious in Eastern Europe  precipitated instead an anti-communist revolution under the leadership of Boris Yeltsin.The revolution  and the sweeping transformation that followed  are treated in the new edition  which assesses the aims and scope of the first decade of Russias second revolution. The transformation included a new constitutional structure  two fully democratic parliamentary elections and a presidential election (with another of each soon to come)  a vigorous revival of political parties and political debate  and major questions about Russias political future. Against the broad background of the Russian experience over a turbulent century  it raises the major questions: What are the prospects for Russian democracy? Why are the communists  following an anti-communist revolution  the most powerful parliamentary party in Russias new parliament  and what is their impact? Why has the conversion to a market economy proved so difficult and painful  and what are its prospects? How has Russia related to the new states that were once fellow republics of the USSR? Why has the foreign policy of the new Russian democracy moved from a vision of partnership with the US to a reality of conflict and confrontation?Twentieth Century Russia poses these questions  and many more  for the student and the general reader alike  against the fascinating background of Russias experience before  during and since the era of communist rule  exploring the roots of current developments in the communist and pre-communist past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646795636789,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813336724","price":35.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813336725.jpg?v=1781678562","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/twentieth-century-russia-ninth-edition-9780813336725","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}