Peace In Their Time

Episode 95 - The New State

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Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither was the Soviet Union. But the pressures of war convinced the Bolsheviks to step up their centralizing efforts, laying the groundwork for the Communist state that everyone would come to know and love. 

 

Bibliography for this episode: 

 

  1. Hosking, Geoffrey Russia and the Russians: A History The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2001
  • Figes, Orlando A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1917 Penguin Books 1998
  • Smith, SA Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis 1890-1928 Oxford University Press 2018
  • Fitzpatrick, Sheila The Russian Revolution, 4th Edition Oxford University Press 2017
  • Kotkin, Stephen Stalin: Paradoxes of Power 1878-1928 Penguin Books 2015
  • Smele, Jonathon D The Russian Civil Wars C. Hurst & Company Ltd 2016
  • Mawdsley, Evan The Russian Civil War Pegasus Books LLC 2007
  • Suny, Ronald Grigor The Cambridge History of Russia, Vol III: The Twentieth Century Cambridge University Press 2006

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