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The New Economic Policy and the Alternatives to Stalinism

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Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution

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The Bolshevik revolution of October–November 1917 was followed by a bitter Civil War. Between 1918 and 1920, in a desperate struggle, the Soviet government succeeded in defeating the numerous White armies and their foreign supporters.

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  1. Kommunist, no. 1, 1988, p. 55; and

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  3. Literaturnaya gazeta, August 5, 1988; V. Tikhonov is an Academician in the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences VASKhNIL.

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  7. see also her article in Druzhba narodov, no. 7,1988, pp. 179–97; see also Chapter 14.

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  11. See for example Literaturnaya gazeta, April 15, 1987 (G. Anashkin),

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  14. Yu. Maksimov in Literaturnaya gazeta, April 6, 1988. The latter wrote that ‘you sometimes begin to wonder if the town of Bukhara was named in honour of dear comrade Bukharin’. A rather lame defence of Bukharin by E. Evtushenko appeared in Sovetskaya kul’tura, April 14, 1988.

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  19. See the worries of E. H. Carr about the role of accident and personality in history described in E. H. Carr, What is History? (2nd edn, R. W. Davies (ed.), 1986), pp. xxvi–xxxi (Pelican edn, 1987, pp. 165–70).

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Davies, R.W. (1989). The New Economic Policy and the Alternatives to Stalinism. In: Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution. Studies in Soviet and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20060-3_3

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