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The Stalin years : a reader / edited by Christopher Read.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.Description: xviii, 241 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0333963423
  • 9780333963425
  • 0333963431 (pbk.)
  • 9780333963432 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DK267 .S6937 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
Stalin's Life and Times -- Main Currents of Interpretation of Stalin and the Stalin Years -- During Stalin's Lifetime -- Cold War, the Death of Stalin and the Rise of the Totalitarian Thesis -- The Rise of Revisionism -- Perestroika and After -- Cultural Revolution -- Social Modernization -- 'The Modernization of Russian Motherhood, 1917-37' / Elizabeth Waters -- Towards the 'New Soviet Person': the Assault on Religion -- 'The 1929 Congress of the Godless' / Daniel Peris -- Industrialization and Collectivization -- The Drive to Industrialize -- 'Building the "Soviet Detroit": the Construction of the Nizhnii-Novgorod Automobile Factory, 1927-32' / Kurt S. Schultz -- The Assault on the Peasantry -- 'Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-3' / R.W. Davies, M.B. Tauger, S.G. Wheatcroft -- The Great Terror -- Why Did the Terror Take Place? -- 'The Objectives of the Great Terror, 1937-87' / Oleg Khlevnyuk -- The Purges in the Provinces -- 'How the Mice Buried the Cat: Scenes from the Great Purges of 1937 in the Russian Provinces' / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- The Great Fatherland War -- 'Soviet Women at War' / John Erickson -- The Final Years -- The Cold War -- 'Moscow and the Marshall Plan: Politics, Ideology and the Onset of the Cold War, 1947' / Geoffrey Roberts -- Stalin's Dictatorship in the Final Years -- 'Stalin's Cabinet: the Politburo and Decision Making in the Postwar Years' / Yoram Gorlizki -- Some Reflections on Stalinism -- Stalinism as a Civilization -- 'Stalinism as a Civilization' / Stephen Kotkin.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index.

Stalin's Life and Times -- Main Currents of Interpretation of Stalin and the Stalin Years -- During Stalin's Lifetime -- Cold War, the Death of Stalin and the Rise of the Totalitarian Thesis -- The Rise of Revisionism -- Perestroika and After -- Cultural Revolution -- Social Modernization -- 'The Modernization of Russian Motherhood, 1917-37' / Elizabeth Waters -- Towards the 'New Soviet Person': the Assault on Religion -- 'The 1929 Congress of the Godless' / Daniel Peris -- Industrialization and Collectivization -- The Drive to Industrialize -- 'Building the "Soviet Detroit": the Construction of the Nizhnii-Novgorod Automobile Factory, 1927-32' / Kurt S. Schultz -- The Assault on the Peasantry -- 'Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-3' / R.W. Davies, M.B. Tauger, S.G. Wheatcroft -- The Great Terror -- Why Did the Terror Take Place? -- 'The Objectives of the Great Terror, 1937-87' / Oleg Khlevnyuk -- The Purges in the Provinces -- 'How the Mice Buried the Cat: Scenes from the Great Purges of 1937 in the Russian Provinces' / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- The Great Fatherland War -- 'Soviet Women at War' / John Erickson -- The Final Years -- The Cold War -- 'Moscow and the Marshall Plan: Politics, Ideology and the Onset of the Cold War, 1947' / Geoffrey Roberts -- Stalin's Dictatorship in the Final Years -- 'Stalin's Cabinet: the Politburo and Decision Making in the Postwar Years' / Yoram Gorlizki -- Some Reflections on Stalinism -- Stalinism as a Civilization -- 'Stalinism as a Civilization' / Stephen Kotkin.