Regime and Society in Twentieth-Century Russia

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Regime and Society in Twentieth-Century Russia is written by Ian D. Thatcher and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1349271853 (ISBN 10) and 9781349271856 (ISBN 13).

This book contains fresh approaches to the interaction between regime and society in twentieth-century Russia. It offers new answers to familiar questions: * How useful is 'totalitarianism' as a model to categorise authoritarian regimes? * What chances existed for tsarism to establish itself as a constitutional monarchy? * Were Trotsky and Lenin dictators in waiting? * How did the Bolsheviks make the Lenin cult? * What opposition did intellectuals offer in the Soviet regime? * What is the nature of contemporary Russian constitutionalism? It is required reading for historians, political scientists, sociologists and everyone interested in modern Russia.