Title: Stalinism : the essential readings /
Authors: Hoffmann, David L. 1961-
Publisher: Blackwell,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Stalinisme.; Politieke situatie.; Sociale situatie.; Stalinisme.; Soviet Union Politics and government; Soviet Union Social conditions.; URSS Politique et gouvernement; URSS Conditions sociales.
Abstract: "The chapters include work by both eminent historians and younger scholars who have conducted research in the newly-opened Russian Archives. These perspectives are brought together by the editor who provides a contextualizing chapter and introductions to the debates. The book provides students and teachers with a valuable overview of the scholarship on Stalinism and an understanding of the debates that have shaped the field of Soviet history."--Jacket.
Contents: Stalin's role : Stalin and his Stalinism : power and authority in the Soviet Union, 1930-1953 / 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.