Routledge Library Editions: Soviet Politics
About the Book Series
Routledge Library Editions: Soviet Politics collects together 25 previously out-of-print titles to form an important reference work on the state of politics in the Soviet Union from its beginnings up to Gorbachev. It looks at the Communist Party, local government, the Politburo, the rulers of the Soviet Union and their vying for power, the means of control, local politics, foreign policy and much more besides.
The Cold War Past and Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Crockatt, Steve Smith
August 01, 2025
The Cold War Past and Present (1987) analyses the generally antagonistic postwar relations between the Soviet Union and the West, particularly America. Following the uneasy wartime alliance, Russia’s tightening grip on Eastern Europe and the Berlin Blockade ushered in the first of the ‘cold wars’, ...
The Limits of Destalinization in the Soviet Union: Political Rehabilitations in the Soviet Union since Stalin
1st Edition
By Albert P. van Goudoever
August 01, 2025
The Limits of Destalinization in the Soviet Union (1986) examines the forms, aspects and significance of the phenomenon of rehabilitation in the Soviet Union between 1953 and 1980, when victims of Stalin’s terror were released from camps or posthumously rehabilitated. It describes the political ...
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo
1st Edition
By John Löwenhardt, James R. Ozinga, Erik van Ree
August 01, 2025
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo (1992) is the definitive history and political analysis of this institution. Extensive use of new Soviet sources permitted the authors to provide a comprehensive analysis of the way in which the Politburo operated and a sociological examination of its ...
The Road to Intervention: March-November 1918
1st Edition
By Michael Kettle
August 01, 2025
The Road to Intervention (1988) uses rarely-seen British government papers to analyse the position of the Allied and Russian governments in the last year of the First World War, as the Russian revolution ended their participation in the war and the Western Allies feared a huge German offensive in ...
The Russian Workers' Republic
1st Edition
By Henry Noel Brailsford
August 01, 2025
The Russian Workers’ Republic (1921) is a result of the author’s two-month travels through Soviet Russia. Moving freely from cities to villages, he provides a snapshot of Russian politics and society, industry and military, at a crucial point in 1920 before access for foreigners became more ...
The Soviet Communist Party: Third Edition
1st Edition
By Ronald J. Hill, Peter Frank
August 01, 2025
The Soviet Communist Party (1986) provides a concise and accessible description, analysis and assessment of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and its place in the Soviet political system. It covers the Party’s structures, membership, personnel and functions, and relations with the ...
The Soviet Far East: A Survey of its Physical and Economic Geography
1st Edition
By Erich Thiel
August 01, 2025
The Soviet Far East (1957) examines the Soviet economic and political development of the Russian Far East between Lake Baikal and the Pacific, as it gained importance as the geographic base of Soviet power in the Far Eastern theatre of international politics and strategy....
The Soviet Secret Police
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon Wolin, Robert M. Slusser
August 01, 2025
The Soviet Secret Police (1957) depicts the main aspects of the development, structure and functions of the secret police of the Soviet Union. Much of the information contained within comes from the personal testimony of Soviet citizens who had experienced various activities of the secret police, ...
The Soviet Space Programme
1st Edition
By Ronald D. Humble
August 01, 2025
The Soviet Space Programme (1988) presents a comprehensive over-view of the Soviet space programme from its beginnings up to the end of the 1980s. One important theme explored is the degree to which the Soviet space programme was oriented towards military capabilities. The book concludes that the ...
The Soviet Union: Second Edition
1st Edition
Edited
By R.W. Davies
August 01, 2025
The Soviet Union (1989) examines the state of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s. The Soviet Union claimed to offer a new social, economic and political order – a planned socialist system – and this book looks at the Soviet alternative and the extent of its success. It surveys the major ...
The Soviet Union and Terrorism
1st Edition
By Roberta Goren, Jillian Becker
August 01, 2025
The Soviet Union and Terrorism (1984) examines the extent of Soviet involvement in international terrorism, and the aims and objectives of Soviet foreign policy. It looks at the evidence of changing Soviet attitudes to terrorism from 1917 to the 1980s evidenced in official and semi-official ...
The Way of Bitterness: Soviet Russia, 1920
1st Edition
By Princess Peter Wolkonsky
August 01, 2025
The Way of Bitterness (1931) is a valuable record of life in Soviet Russia in the early days of Bolshevik rule. It details the story of the rescue of Prince Peter Wolkonsky from Soviet Russia by his wife, who had succeeded in escaping Russia in 1919 but returned on foot to Petrograd to secure the ...