Stalinist Society
Subtitle: 1928-1953
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780199236411
Subjects: Soviet union, social conditions; Soviet union, history, 1925-1953
Description: "Stalinist Society offers a fresh analytical overview of the complex social formation ruled over by Stalin and his henchmen from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. Drawing on declassified archival materials, interviews with former Soviet citizens, old and new memoirs, and personal diaries, as well as the best of sixty years of scholarship, this book offers a non-reductionist acount of social upheaval and social cohesion in a society marred by violence."--Back cover.