The Nature of Stalin's Dictatorship
Subtitle: The Politburo 1928-1953 (Studies in Russian & Eastern European History)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 4, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781403904010
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; Marxism & Communism; Political leaders & leadership; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; c 1945 to c 1960; Politbëiìuro; History - General History; History; TSK KPSS; History: World; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russia; Politics and government; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union); 1879-1953; Politbiuro; Soviet Union; Stalin, Joseph,; ëTìSK KPSS.
First sentence: Between Lenin's death in 1924 and the beginning of the Great Terror in 1936, the Soviet political system underwent a dramatic internal transformation.