This publication is prepared for the use of US Government officials. The format, coverage, and content are designed to meet their requirements. Publications are not generally available to …

Each volume in the Contemporary Soviet Union Series examines in detail the facts about an important aspect of Soviet rule as it has affected the Soviet citizen in the 50 years since the …

Peter Kenez presents this revolution as a crisis of authority that the creation of the Soviet Union resolved. The text traces the progress of the Soviet Union through the 1920s, the years of the …

the Soviet Man is a late product of Soviet thought. There was a nearly 40-year gap between the first textbooks on dialectical and historical materialism and the first textbook on Marxist ethics: …

Soviet Union: A Country Study seeks to present factual descriptions and objective interpretations of a broad range of social, political, economic, and national security aspects of the Soviet...

From an agrarian backwater, the Soviet Union became a viable alternative model of the potential future of the social, political, and economic organization of humanity.

Taken as a whole, this volume provides the first compre-hensive survey of CIA's early analysis of the Soviet threat. President Truman's directive establishing CIG on 22 January 1946 created …