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TheSovietUnion:AVeryShortIntroduction VERYSHORTINTRODUCTIONSareforanyonewantingastimulating andaccessiblewayintoanewsubject.Theyarewrittenbyexperts,andhave beenpublishedinmorethan25languagesworldwide. Theseriesbeganin1995,andnowrepresentsawidevarietyoftopicsin history,philosophy,religion,science,andthehumanities.TheVSIlibrary nowcontains200volumes—aVeryShortIntroductiontoeverythingfrom ancientEgyptandIndianphilosophytoconceptualartandcosmology—and willcontinuetogrowtoalibraryofaround300titles. VeryShortIntroductionsavailablenow: AFRICANHISTORY CHAOS LeonardSmith JohnParkerandRichardRathbone CHOICETHEORY MichaelAllingham AMERICANPOLITICALPARTIES CHRISTIANART BethWilliamson ANDELECTIONS L.SandyMaisel CHRISTIANITY LindaWoodhead THEAMERICANPRESIDENCY Citizenship RichardBellamy CharlesO.Jones CLASSICALMYTHOLOGY ANARCHISM ColinWard HelenMorales ANCIENTEGYPT IanShaw CLASSICS ANCIENTPHILOSOPHY JuliaAnnas MaryBeardandJohnHenderson ANCIENTWARFARE CLAUSEWITZ MichaelHoward HarrySidebottom THECOLDWAR RobertMcMahon ANGLICANISM MarkChapman CONSCIOUSNESS SusanBlackmore THEANGLO-SAXONAGE JohnBlair CONTEMPORARYART ANIMALRIGHTS DavidDeGrazia JulianStallabrass ANTISEMITISM StevenBeller CONTINENTALPHILOSOPHY THEAPOCRYPHALGOSPELS SimonCritchley PaulFoster COSMOLOGY PeterColes ARCHAEOLOGY PaulBahn THECRUSADES ChristopherTyerman ARCHITECTURE AndrewBallantyne CRYPTOGRAPHY ARISTOTLE JonathanBarnes FredPiperandSeanMurphy ARTHISTORY DanaArnold DADAANDSURREALISM ARTTHEORY CynthiaFreeland DavidHopkins THEHISTORYOFASTRONOMY DARWIN JonathanHoward MichaelHoskin THEDEADSEASCROLLS ATHEISM JulianBaggini TimothyLim AUGUSTINE HenryChadwick DEMOCRACY BernardCrick Autism UtaFrith DESCARTES TomSorell BARTHES JonathanCuller DESIGN JohnHeskett BESTSELLERS JohnSutherland DINOSAURS DavidNorman THEBIBLE JohnRiches DOCUMENTARYFILM BIOGRAPHY HermioneLee PatriciaAufderheide THEBRAIN MichaelO’Shea DREAMING J.AllanHobson BRITISHPOLITICS AnthonyWright DRUGS LeslieIversen BUDDHA MichaelCarrithers THEEARTH MartinRedfern BUDDHISM DamienKeown ECONOMICS ParthaDasgupta BUDDHISTETHICS DamienKeown EGYPTIANMYTH GeraldinePinch CAPITALISM JamesFulcher EIGHTEENTH-CENTURYBRITAIN CATHOLICISM GeraldO’Collins PaulLangford THECELTS BarryCunliffe THEELEMENTS PhilipBall EMOTION DylanEvans INDIANPHILOSOPHY SueHamilton EMPIRE StephenHowe INTELLIGENCE IanJ.Deary ENGELS TerrellCarver INTERNATIONALMIGRATION ETHICS SimonBlackburn KhalidKoser THEEUROPEANUNION INTERNATIONALRELATIONS JohnPinderandSimonUsherwood PaulWilkinson EVOLUTION ISLAM MaliseRuthven BrianandDeborahCharlesworth JOURNALISM IanHargreaves EXISTENTIALISM ThomasFlynn JUDAISM NormanSolomon FASCISM KevinPassmore JUNG AnthonyStevens FEMINISM MargaretWalters KABBALAH JosephDan THEFIRSTWORLDWAR KAFKA RitchieRobertson MichaelHoward KANT RogerScruton FOSSILS KeithThomson KIERKEGAARD PatrickGardiner FOUCAULT GaryGutting THEKORAN MichaelCook FREEWILL ThomasPink law RaymondWacks FREESPEECH NigelWarburton LINCOLN AllenC.Guelzo THEFRENCHREVOLUTION LINGUISTICS PeterMatthews WilliamDoyle LITERARYTHEORY JonathanCuller FREUD AnthonyStorr LOCKE JohnDunn FUNDAMENTALISM MaliseRuthven LOGIC GrahamPriest galaxies JohnGribbin MACHIAVELLI QuentinSkinner GALILEO StillmanDrake THEMARQUISDESADE JohnPhillips GAMETHEORY KenBinmore MARX PeterSinger GANDHI BhikhuParekh MATHEMATICS TimothyGowers Geography Themeaningoflife JohnMatthews&DavidHerbert TerryEagleton GEOPOLITICS KlausDodds MEDICALETHICS TonyHope GERMANLITERATURE MEDIEVALBRITAIN NicholasBoyle JohnGillinghamandRalphA.Griffiths GLOBALCATASTROPHES Memory JonathanFoster BillMcGuire MODERNART DavidCottington GLOBALWARMING MarkMaslin MODERNCHINA RanaMitter GLOBALIZATION ManfredSteger MODERNIRELAND SeniaPaˇseta THEGREATDEPRESSIONANDTHE MODERNJAPAN Christopher NEWDEAL EricRauchway Goto-Jones HABERMAS JamesGordonFinlayson MOLECULES PhilipBall HEGEL PeterSinger Mormonism HEIDEGGER MichaelInwood RichardLymanBushman HIEROGLYPHS PenelopeWilson MUSIC NicholasCook HINDUISM KimKnott MYTH RobertA.Segal HISTORY JohnH.Arnold NATIONALISM StevenGrosby TheHistoryofLife MichaelBenton NELSONMANDELA EllekeBoehmer HistoryofMedicine THENEWTESTAMENTAS WilliamBynum LITERATURE KyleKeefer THEHISTORYOFTIME Leofranc NEWTON RobertIliffe Holford-Strevens NIETZSCHE MichaelTanner HIV/AIDS AlanWhiteside NINETEENTH-CENTURY HOBBES RichardTuck BRITAIN ChristopherHarvie HUMANEVOLUTION BernardWood andH.C.G.Matthew HUMANRIGHTS AndrewClapham NORTHERNIRELAND HUME A.J.Ayer MarcMulholland IDEOLOGY MichaelFreeden NOTHING FrankClose nuclearweapons RUSSIANLITERATURE JosephM.Siracusa CatrionaKelly THEOLDTESTAMENT THERUSSIANREVOLUTION MichaelD.Coogan S.A.Smith PARTICLEPHYSICS FrankClose SCHIZOPHRENIA PAUL E.P.Sanders ChrisFrithandEveJohnstone PHILOSOPHY EdwardCraig SCHOPENHAUER PHILOSOPHYOFLAW ChristopherJanaway RaymondWacks Scienceandreligion PHILOSOPHYOFSCIENCE ThomasDixon SamirOkasha SCOTLAND RabHouston PHOTOGRAPHY SteveEdwards Sexuality V´eroniqueMottier PLATO JuliaAnnas SHAKESPEARE GermaineGreer POLITICALPHILOSOPHY SIKHISM EleanorNesbitt DavidMiller SOCIALANDCULTURAL POLITICS KennethMinogue ANTHROPOLOGY POSTCOLONIALISM RobertYoung JohnMonaghanandPeterJust POSTMODERNISM SOCIALISM MichaelNewman ChristopherButler SOCIOLOGY SteveBruce POSTSTRUCTURALISM SOCRATES C.C.W.Taylor CatherineBelsey THESOVIETUNION StephenLovell PREHISTORY ChrisGosden THESPANISHCIVILWAR PRESOCRATICPHILOSOPHY HelenGraham CatherineOsborne SPINOZA RogerScruton PSYCHIATRY TomBurns STATISTICS DavidJ.Hand PSYCHOLOGY GillianButlerand STUARTBRITAIN JohnMorrill FredaMcManus SUPERCONDUCTIVITY THEQUAKERS PinkDandelion StephenBlundell QUANTUMTHEORY TERRORISM CharlesTownshend JohnPolkinghorne THEOLOGY DavidF.Ford RACISM AliRattansi TRAGEDY AdrianPoole RELATIVITY RussellStannard THETUDORS JohnGuy ReligioninAmerica TWENTIETH-CENTURY TimothyBeal BRITAIN KennethO.Morgan THERENAISSANCE JerryBrotton TheunitedNations RENAISSANCEART JussiM.Hanhim¨aki GeraldineA.Johnson THEVIKINGS JulianRichards ROMANBRITAIN PeterSalway WITTGENSTEIN A.C.Grayling THEROMANEMPIRE WORLDMUSIC PhilipBohlman ChristopherKelly THEWORLDTRADE ROUSSEAU RobertWokler ORGANIZATION RUSSELL A.C.Grayling AmritaNarlikar Availablesoon: Puritanism Communism LeslieHolmes FrancisJ.Bremer Fashion RebeccaArnold WritingandScript Aquinas FergusKerr AndrewRobinson Deserts NickMiddleton Formoreinformationvisitourwebsite www.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/ Stephen Lovell the Soviet Union A Very Short Introduction 3 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork #StephenLovell2009 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2009 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Dataavailable TypesetbySPIPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedinGreatBritainby AshfordColourPressLtd,Gosport,Hampshire ISBN 978–0–19–923848–4 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Contents Acknowledgements ix Listofillustrations xi Listofmaps xiii Introduction:questionsandapproaches 1 1 Futureandpast 15 2 Coercionandparticipation 37 3 Povertyandwealth 58 4 Eliteandmasses 78 5 Patriotismandmultinationalism 96 6 WestandEast 117 Conclusion 140 Furtherreading 143 Index 147 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements WorkonthisbookwasgreatlyeasedbytheawardofaPhilip LeverhulmePrize.IthanktheLeverhulmeTrustforitsgenerous support. IgratefullyacknowledgetheassistanceofLucianaO’Flaherty, AndreaKeegan,andOUP’sexternalreadersasthebookwentfrom commissiontocompletion.Manythanksalsotothecolleagueswho kindlyreadpartsorthewholeofthemanuscript:CatrionaKelly castherkeeneyeoverafulldraft,whileJeremySmithandJulian Graffyofferedhelpfulcommentsonindividualchapters. MygreatestdebtistothemanyscholarswhoseworkIhaveused withouthavingtheopportunityforadequateacknowledgement. TothemIoffergratefulapologies.
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