The rise of the Soviet Union : Streissguth, Thomas, 1958- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and index

Foreword -- Introduction -- Revolution and its aftermath -- Course of the Russian Revolution / J.N. Westwood ; Lenin's betrayal of Russia / Dmitri Volkogonov ; Bolsheviks take power / John Reed ; Bolshevik victory in the civil war / Moshe Lewin -- Building the new state -- Creation of the USSR / M.K. Dziewanowski ; Formation of a new ruling bureaucracy / Leon Trotsky ; Joseph Stalin completes the transition to dictatorship / Theodore H. Von Laue ; Stalin launches the great terror / Ronald Hingley ; Purge of 1937 / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn -- Building socialism -- Early attempts to manage the economy / Peter Kenez ; Lenin institutes the new economic policy / Warren Bartlett Walsh ; Centrally planned economy was inefficient / Peter Rutland ; Soviet government's control of culture / Richard Pipes ; Improving the status of women / Walter Duranty -- Soviet Union and the world -- Soviet and U.S. mnisperceptions led to the Cold War / Ronald Grigor Suny ; Cuban Missile Crisis was a victory for socialism / Nikita Khrushchev ; Foreign adventures and domestic turmoil prompted Gorbachev's reforms / Geoffrey Hosking ; Russian Revolution had a positive impact on the world / Mikhail Gorbachev

Eighteen essays provide information on the Russian Revolution of October 1917 and its aftermath, the creation of the USSR, the growth of Soviet socialism, and the relationship of the Soviet Union with the world. Also includes a glossary, a chronology, and a selected bibliography