The evolution of the ruling Communist Party and its New Economic Policy is explored in the first book to analyze the relationship between the Soviet state and s

An authoritative history of Russia from early Rus' to the reign of Peter the Great.

A study of Lunacharsky's commissariat which ran both education and the arts in Bolshevik Russia.

Why did the most unruly proletariat of the Twentieth Century come to tolerate the ascendancy of a political and economic system that, by every conceivable measu

The automobile and Soviet communism made an odd couple. The quintessential symbol of American economic might and consumerism never achieved iconic status as an