The lost Politburo transcripts : from collective rule to Stalin's dictatorship / edited by Paul R. Gregory and Norman Naimark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gregory, Paul R.

Naimark, Norman M.

Series:

Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.

The Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1917-1936--Sources.

Soviet Union.

T︠S︡K KPSS. Politbi︠u︡ro--History--Sources.

T︠S︡K KPSS.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 271 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Prominent Westen and Russian scholars examine the 'lost' transcripts of the Soviet Politburo, a set of verbatim accounts of meetings that took place from the 1920's to 1938 but remained hidden in secret archives until the late 1990's.

Contents:

Findings and perspectives / Norman Naimark

The Politburo's role as revealed by the lost transcripts / Paul Gregory

Stalin in the light of the Politburo transcripts / Hiroaki Kuromiya

"Class bothers unite!" the British general strike and the formation of the "united opposition" / Alexander Vatlin

Stalin, Syrtsov, Lominadze : preparations for the "second great breakthrough" / Oleg Khlevniuk

The "right opposition" and the "Smirnov-Eismont-Tolmachev affair" / Charters Wynn

The way they talked then : the discourse of politics in the Soviet Party Politburo in the late 1920s / Robert Service

Making the unthinkable thinkable : language microhistory of Politburo meetings / Leona Toker

The short course of the history of the all-union Communist Party : the distorted mirror of party propaganda / Rustem Nureev

Grain, class, and politics during NEP : the Politburo meeting of december 10, 1925 / R.W. Davies

The Politburo on gold, industrialization, and the international economy, 1925-1926 / David M. Woodruff

Prices in the Politburo, 1927 : market equilibrium versus the use of force / Mark Harrison.

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-257) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-35214-8

9786612352140

0-300-15222-1

OCLC:

923592969