{"product_id":"2026100007573-secondhand-soviet-rule-in-russia","title":"Soviet Rule In Russia","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a pivotal moment in the twentieth century, when the revolutionary experiment of Bolshevism was reshaping the very fabric of civilization, Walter Russell Batsell's Soviet Rule in Russia offers one of the earliest and most rigorous scholarly examinations of the Soviet state in full operation. Published in 1929, this authoritative work chronicles the political architecture, governmental institutions, and ideological machinery that the Communist Party constructed upon the ruins of Tsarist Russia, presenting a meticulous and dispassionate analysis of a regime that much of the Western world was only beginning to comprehend.\n\nBatsell writes with the precision of a political scientist and the analytical clarity of a historian, dissecting the constitutional frameworks, party structures, and administrative mechanisms that defined Soviet governance in its formative decade. Soviet Rule in Russia stands as a landmark of early Cold War-era political scholarship, situating the reader at the very heart of a debate that would consume the globe for the better part of a century — leaving one to wonder how clearly the seeds of the Soviet Union's ultimate contradictions were already visible to those willing to look.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49131003511003,"sku":"2026100007573-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/6bec7223-ce5c-4de8-8973-e699283ca3ab.png?v=1786594382","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007573-secondhand-soviet-rule-in-russia","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}