Druhá revoluce - Stalinská transformace v Sovětském svazu 1928–1934 – Litera Bohuslav (2013)

The historical development of the last centuries is, in a way, a struggle between democracy and various types of dictatorship. A special case is Russia, which, although it began a slow process of weakening autocracy after the 1904-1905 revolution, had that process halted for nearly a century by World War I and the October Revolution of 1917. The new Bolshevik power radically changed the social and economic structure of the country, and further drastic changes were imposed by the Stalinist totalitarian regime that came to power at the turn of the 20th and 30th centuries. The changes that this regime subsequently applied to the countries of the Soviet bloc, including Czechoslovakia, from the late 1940s onward. Some consequences of the Stalinist transformation are still evident today. The study of Stalinism is highly relevant, not only as a significant historical phenomenon but also in contemporary times. About the author: PhDr. Bohuslav Litera, CSc. (* 1950), historian, research worker at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, lectures at the Institute of International Relations at Charles University. He specializes in the modern history of Russia in the 20th century. He is the author or co-author of several monographs, including Mutual Relations of Post-Soviet Republics (1998, co-authored with L. Švec, J. Wanner, B. Zilynský); East. The Formation, Development, and Dissolution of the Soviet Bloc 1944-1989...