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The Shadow of War: Russia and the USSR, 1941 to the present

ISBN: 978-1-405-16958-5

August 2010

Wiley-Blackwell

400 pages

Description
Taking the achievements, ambiguities, and legacies of World War II as a point of departure, The Shadow of War: The Soviet Union and Russia, 1941 to the Present offers a fresh new approach to modern Soviet and Russian history.
  • Presents one of the only histories of the Soviet Union and Russia that begins with World War II and goes beyond the Soviet collapse through to the early twenty-first century
  • Innovative thematic arrangement and approach allows for insights that are missed in chronological histories
  • Draws on a wide range of sources and the very latest research on post-Soviet history, a rapidly developing field
  • Supported by further reading, bibliography, maps and illustrations.
About the Author
Stephen Lovell is a Reader in Modern European History at King’s College London. His previous books include The Russian Reading Revolution: Print Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras (2000), Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710-2000 (2003), Destination in Doubt: Russia since 1989 (2006), and The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction (2009).