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Richard Sakwa provides a fresh analysis examining the tension between the theory and practice of communism and the history of Russia in the twentieth century. Sakwa offers students a concise, comprehensive and stimulating overview of the rise and fall of communism and its interaction with the fate of the nation.

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Preface.- The Russian Problem.- A Century of Revolution I: For Communism.- A Century of Revolution II: Revolution and Power.- A Century of Revolution III: Against Communism.- The Challenge of Modernisation.- State-building.- One Russia or Many?.- Society-forming.- Democratisation.- Russia, the World and War.- Russia and the Twentieth Century.- Notes and References.- Select Bibliography.- Index.

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RICHARD SAKWA is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent, UK. He has published widely on Soviet, Russian and post-communist affairs.

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