Stalinism
Subtitle: the essential readings
By: edited by David L. Hoffmann.
Contributors: Hoffmann, David L. 1961-
Series: Blackwell essential readings in history
Publisher: Blackwell; Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.; Soviet Union -- Social conditions.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Stalin's role : Stalin and his Stalinism : power and authority in the Soviet Union, 1930-1953 / Ronald Grigor Suny; title: Social origins : grappling with Stalinism / Moshe Lewin; title: Socialist ideology : the Soviet tragedy : a history of socialism in Russia / Martin Malia; title: The foreign threat : the objectives of the Great Terror, 1937-38 / Oleg Khlevnyuk; title: The welfare state : magnetic mountain : Stalinism as a civilization / Stephen Kotkin; title: State violence : state violence as technique : the logic of violence in Soviet totalitarianism / Peter Holquist; title: Resistance and conformity : everyday Stalinism : ordinary life in extraordinary times / Sheila Fitzpatrick; title: Stalinist subjectivity : working, struggling, becoming : Stalin-era autobiographical texts / Jochen Hellbeck; title: Women and gender : women in Soviet society : equality, development, and social change / Gail Warshofsky Lapidus; title: Ethnicity and nationality : nature and nurture in a socialist utopia : delineating the Soviet socio-ethnic body in the age of socialism / Amir Weiner; title: The postwar years : Russia after the war : hopes, illusions, and disappointments / Elena Zubkova.