HISTORY OF THE USSR
in three Part
Part III
From the Beginning of the Great Patriotic War to the Present day
Translated from the Russian Soviet Historians
Design By MAXIMILIAN SCHIOSSBERG
FOREWORD
Part III of the History of the USSR covers the period from the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941- 45 to the present day. These years saw significant events in the social and economic development of the Soviet Union.
Having in the main, constructed a socialist society, the people of the USSR made a vast effort to consolidate and improve it, heartened by the prospect of the gradual transition to communism. But the treacherous attack on the USSR by fascist Germany on the 22 June 1941 interrupted the peaceful work of the Soviet people, forcing them to stand up and defend the great gains of socialism.
The fascists and their allies strove to destroy the Soviet state, enslave the Soviet peoples and employ the resources of the USSR in order to establish their own world supremacy. On the part of the Soviet people, the war was a just struggle for freedom and independence, and for their socialist homeland.
The Soviet Union`s Great Patriotic War against fascist Germany and militarist Japan demonstrated the great advantages of the socialist system based on the voluntary unification of Soviet republic into a single union state.
The might of the Soviet Union was an important condition for the creation of an anti-Hitler coalition of states and people.
In spite of all the hardships, the Soviet state emerged from the war much stronger than it had been at the outset. The enormous industrial potential created in the eastern regions of the country enabled the economy of the war-ravaged areas to be rehabilitated within a short space of time. After the war the Soviet economy developed with consistent success six postwar five-year plans have already been fulfilled.
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
Chapter 1
THE SOVIET UNION`S GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR (1941-45)
Chapter 2
THE REHABILITATION AND FUTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY. COMPLETION OF TH BUILDING OF SOCIALISM (1946-58)
Chapter 3
FUTHER CONSOLIDATION OF SOCIALIST SOCIETY AND THE GRADUAL TRANSITION TOWARDS COMMUNISM (1959-76)
Chapter 4
THE ADVANCE OF SOVIET CULTURE
CONCLUSION
CHRONOLOGICAL SUMARY
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