Mark Edele. The Soviet Union. A Short History.

Contents

Preface

Part I

The First Age of Violence

1 – Twilight of Empire (1904–1914)

2 – Imperial Apocalypse (1914–1918)

3 – Regathering the Empire (1918–1923)

Part II

The Interwar Years

4 – Consolidating the Empire (1921–1928)

Part III

The Second Age of Violence

5 – Building the Warfare State (1928–1938)

6 – A Long Second World War (1937–1949)

Part IV

From Warfare to Welfare

7 – Normalization (1944–1957)

8 – Mature Socialism (1956–1985)

Part V

Imperial Discontent

9 – Reform, Crisis, Breakdown (1985–1991)

10 – After Empire: Epilogue