16: The Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia (1924–2000)
This topic covers the dramatic events in the Soviet Union from Stalin's establishment of a totalitarian state through economic and political stagnation to the collapse of Stalin's legacy in 1989 and the problems of the post-Soviet era.
Specifically this section covers:
- Stalin's defeat of Trotsky in the leadership race, Stalin's economic policies and his increase in political control through propaganda and the Terror
- The USSR's victory in the Great Patriotic War and the political and economic developments after the war up to 1953
- The domestic and foreign policies of Khrushchev and Brezhnev
- The impact of Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost
- The collapse of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia up to 2000
1. Stalin's rise to power and rule (1924 - 1941)
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