Stalin
Subtitle: a new history
By: edited by Sarah Davies and James Harris.
Contributors: Davies, Sarah; Harris, James R., 1964-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780521851046; 9780521616539
Subjects: Stalin, Joseph, -- 1879-1953; Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953; Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953
Genres: Biography.
Description: This study challenges many assumptions about Stalin from his early life to his contributions across the political, economic, social, cultural and ideological spectrum and provides a deeper understanding of the nature of Stalin's power and ideas, presenting a more nuanced image of this historic figure.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Joseph Stalin : power and ideas -- Sarah Davies and James Harris; title: Stalin as Georgian : the formative years -- Alfred J. Rieber; title: Stalin as Commissar for Nationality Affairs, 1918-1922 -- Jeremy Smith; title: Stalin as General Secretary : the appointments process and the nature of Stalin's power -- James Harris; title: Stalin as Prime Minister : power and the Politburo -- J. Arch Getty; title: Stalin as dictator : the personalisation of power -- Oleg V. Khlevniuk; title: Stalin as economic policy-maker : Soviet agriculture, 1931-1936 -- R.W. Davies; title: Stalin as foreign policy-maker : avoiding war, 1927-1953 -- Alfred J. Rieber; title: Stalin as Marxist : the Western roots of Stalin's russification of Marxism -- Erik Van Ree; title: Stalin as Bolshevik romantic : ideology and mobilisation, 1917-1939 -- David Priestland; title: Stalin as patron of cinema : creating Soviet mass culture, 1932-1936 -- Sarah Davies; title: Stalin as producer : the Moscow show trials and the construction of mortal threats -- William Chase; title: Stalin as symbol : a case study of the personality cult and its construction -- David Brandenberger; title: Stalin as the coryphaeus of science : ideology and knowledge in the post-war years-- Ethan Pollock.