Redefining Stalinism
By: editor, Harold Shukman.
Contributors: Shukman, Harold.
Series: Cass series--totalitarian movements and political religions
Publisher: Frank Cass
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953 -- Influence.; Communism -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936.
Description: "Harold Shukman introduces Redefining Stalinism, a collection of articles published 50 years after Stalin's death. With the opening of Soviet archives to an unprecedented degree since the demise of the USSR, totalitarian and revisionist arguments about Stalin and the Stalinist system can be more closely explored."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Stalinism and the Soviet state order / Robert Service; title: Stalinism, totalitarian society and the politics of 'perfect control' / Felix Patrikeeff; title: Stalin's politics of obligation / Jeffrey Brooks; title: Stalin and foreign intelligence / Christopher Andrew and Julie Elkner; title: Stalin's martyrs : the tragic romance of the Russian revolution / Michael G. Smith; title: From Stalinism to post-Stalinism : de-mythologising Stalin, 1953-56 / Polly Jones; title: Recent Western Views of Stalin's Russia : social and cultural aspects / John Keep.