Russia on the turn of epochs

The last book by professor of history Efim Gimpelson (1921-2005) is a collection of documented stories about several significant periods and phenomena in the history of Russia in the 20th century: From February to October 1917: Towards victory of the Soviets; The Civil war 1918-1922; "Military communism"; Half-market NEP; Absolute power of the CPSU secretaries instead of autocracy of the Russian tsars; From state officials through "nomenklatura" to new managers; On the way to GULAG; Bureaucratization of the state; Militant atheism; Stalin`s responsibility for the "unexpected" invasion of Germany in June 1945; From pure capitalism to capitalism with democracy. Also available by the same author: Sovetskie Upravlentsy 1917-1920 gg. (1998); NEP i Sovetskaia Politicheskaia Sistema: 20-e Gody (2000); Stanovlenie i Evoliutsiia Sovetskogo Gosudarstvennogo Apparata Upravleniia 1917 – 1930 (2003); NEP i Sovetskaia Politicheskaia Sistema: 20-e Gody (2004).