Stalin's Usable Past : A Critical Edition of the 1937 Short History of the USSR / edited by David Brandenberger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brandenberger, David, Author.

Contributor:

Brandenberger, David, editor.

Series:

Stanford-Hoover series on authoritarianism.

Stanford-Hoover Series on Authoritarianism Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textbooks--Censorship--Soviet Union.

Textbooks.

Russia--History--Textbooks.

Russia.

Russia--History and criticism.

Soviet Union--History--Textbooks.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--History and criticism.

Shestakov, A. V. (Andreĭ Vasilʹevich), 1877-1941. Kratkiĭ kurs istorii SSSR.

Shestakov, A. V.

Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953--Authorship--Collaboration.

Stalin, Joseph.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (474 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"At the height of the Great Terror in 1937, Joseph Stalin took a break from the purges to edit a new textbook on the history of the USSR. Published shortly thereafter, the Short History of the USSR amounted to an ideological sea change. Stalin had literally rewritten Russo-Soviet History, breaking with two decades of Bolshevik propaganda that styled the 1917 Revolution as the start of a new era. In its place, he established a thousand-year pedigree for the Soviet state that stretched back through the Russian empire and Muscovy to the very dawn of Slavic civilization. Appearing in million-copy print runs through 1955, the Short History transformed how a generation of Soviet citizens were to understand the past, not only in public school and adult indoctrination courses, but on the printed page, the theatrical stage, and the silver screen. Stalin's Usable Past supplies a critical edition of the Short History that both analyzes the text and places it in historical context. By highlighting Stalin's precise redactions and embellishments, historian David Brandenberger reveals the scope of Stalin's personal involvement in the textbook's development, documenting in unprecedented detail his plans for the transformation of Soviet society's historical imagination"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Our country in the distant past

The Kiev state

Eastern Europe under the rule of the Mongol conquerors

The rise of the Russian national state

The expansion of the Russian state

The peasant wars and revolts of the oppressed peoples in the 17th century

Russia in the 18th century : the empire of landlords and merchants

Tsarist Russia

the gendarme of Europe

The growth of capitalism in Tsarist Russia

The first bourgeois revolution in Russia

The second bourgeois revolution in Russia

The Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia

Military intervention : the Civil War

The turn to peaceful labour : economic restoration of the country

U.S.S.R. is the land of victorious socialism.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781503638990