A Short History of Soviet Society, edited by Y Polyakov

A Short History of Soviet Society, edited by Y Polyakov

Published by Progress Publishers (Moscow) in 1977, 662 pages. Hardback with Dust Jacket (S5850)

This book, published in the Soviet Union (In English), provides a detailed history of the USSR from the Russian Revolution up to the mid 1970's. Chapters include:

• The Russian Revolution
• The Struggle against foreign intervention and internal counter-revolution 1918-1920
• The New Economic Policy 1921-1925
• Progress in the reconstruction of the economy 1926-1928
• The first five year plan 1929-1932
• The completion of economic reconstruction 1933-1937
• The outcome of the transitional period
• The USSR on the eve of the Great Patriotic War 1938-1941
• The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945
• The march forward to the final victory of socialism in the USSR
• The full scale construction of communism in the USSR 1959-1974.