Stalinism : the essential readings / edited by David L. Hoffmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoffmann, David L. (David Lloyd), 1961-

Series:

Blackwell essential readings in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953.

Soviet Union.

Politics and government.

Soviet Union--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xiv, 317 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.

Contents:

Stalin's role : Stalin and his Stalinism : power and authority in the Soviet Union, 1930-53 / Ronald Grigor Suny

Social origins : grappling with Stalinism / Moshe Lewin

Socialist ideology : the Soviet tragedy : a history of socialism in Russia / Martin Malia

The foreign threat : the objectives of the Great Terror, 1937-38 / Oleg Khlevnyuk

The welfare state : magnetic mountain : Stalinism as a civilization / Stephen Kotkin

State violence : state violence as technique : the logic of violence in Soviet totalitarianism / Peter Holquist

Resistance and conformity : everyday Stalinism : ordinary life in extraordinary times / Sheila Fitzpatrick

Stalinist subjectivity : working, struggling, becoming : Stalin-era autobiographical texts / Jochen Hellbeck

Women and gender : women in Soviet society : equality, development, and social change / Gail Warshofsky Lapidus

Ethnicity and nationality : nature and nurture in a socialist utopia : delineating the Soviet socio-ethnic body in the age of socialism / Amir Weiner

The postwar years : Russia after the war : hopes, illusions, and disappointments / Elena Zubkova.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

063122890X

0631228918

OCLC:

50028707