The Soviet Union during the Brezhnev Era: The History of the USSR Under Leonid Brezhnev Charles River Editors
Includes picturesIncludes a bibliography for further readingFor 30 years, much of the West looked on with disdain as the Bolsheviks took power in Russia and created and consolidated the Soviet Union.…
Specifikacia The Soviet Union during the Brezhnev Era: The History of the USSR Under Leonid Brezhnev Charles River Editors
Includes picturesIncludes a bibliography for further readingFor 30 years, much of the West looked on with disdain as the Bolsheviks took power in Russia and created and consolidated the Soviet Union. As bad as Vladimir Lenin seemed in the early 20th century, Joseph Stalin was so much worse that Churchill later remarked of Lenin, "Their worst misfortune was his birth... their next worst his death." Before World War II, Stalin consolidated his position by frequently purging party leaders (most famously Leon Trotsky) and Red Army leaders, executing hundreds of thousands of people at the least. And in one of history's greatest textbook examples of the idea that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, Stalin's Soviet Union allied with Britain and the United States to defeat Hitler in Europe during World War II.Stalin had ruled with an iron fist for nearly 30 years before his death