Stephen Lovell

Almost twenty years after the Soviet Union's end, what are we to make of its existence? Was it a heroic experiment, an unmitigated disaster, or a viable if flawed response to the modern world? What was the Soviet Union like? How did it evolve over seven decades? What was the relationship between the regime and the general population? This introduction blends political history with an investigation into the society and culture at the time. The author examines aspects of patriotism, mass culture, political violence, poverty, and ideology; and provides answers to some of the big questions about the Soviet experience.

The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction

Professor of Modern History Stephen Lovell

Like the suburbs in other nations, the dacha form of settlement served to alleviate social anxieties about urban growth.".

A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000

Summerfolk

Birgit Menzel

Post-Soviet Popular Literature in Historical Perspective

Reading for Entertainment in Contemporary Russia

The first history in English of Soviet radio from its earliest days to the advent of television, showing the role played by broadcasting in establishing control of the Soviet State up to the 1970s: including the Cultural Revolution, Stalinist 1930s, World War II, the Cold War, and de-Stalinization.

A History of Soviet Radio, 1919-1970

Russia in the Microphone Age

Taking the achievements, ambiguities, and legacies of World War II as a point of departure, The Shadow of War: The Soviet Union and Russia, 1941 to the Present offers a fresh new approach to modern Soviet and Russian history. Presents one of the only histories of the Soviet Union and Russia that begins with World War II and goes beyond the Soviet collapse through to the early twenty-first century Innovative thematic arrangement and approach allows for insights that are missed in chronological histories Draws on a wide range of sources and the very latest research on post-Soviet history, a rapidly developing field Supported by further reading, bibliography, maps and illustrations.

Russia and the USSR, 1941 to the present

The Shadow of War

Catriona Kelly

This book, first published in 2000, gives an account of the interplay between literary and visual culture in the Russian modernist era.

Stephen Lovell

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