| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 271 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War |
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Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.
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| Contents |
Findings and perspectives / Norman Naimark -- The Politburo's role as revealed by the lost transcripts / Paul Gregory -- Stalin in the light of the Politburo transcripts / Hiroaki Kuromiya -- "Class bothers unite!" the British general strike and the formation of the "united opposition" / Alexander Vatlin -- Stalin, Syrtsov, Lominadze : preparations for the "second great breakthrough" / Oleg Khlevniuk -- The "right opposition" and the "Smirnov-Eismont-Tolmachev affair" / Charters Wynn -- The way they talked then : the discourse of politics in the Soviet Party Politburo in the late 1920s / Robert Service -- Making the unthinkable thinkable : language microhistory of Politburo meetings / Leona Toker -- The short course of the history of the all-union Communist Party : the distorted mirror of party propaganda / Rustem Nureev -- Grain, class, and politics during NEP : the Politburo meeting of December 10, 1925 / R.W. Davies -- The Politburo on gold, industrialization, and the international economy, 1925-1926 / David M. Woodruff -- Prices in the Politburo, 1927 : market equilibrium versus the use of force / Mark Harrison |
| Summary |
Prominent Westen and Russian scholars examine the 'lost' transcripts of the Soviet Politburo, a set of verbatim accounts of meetings that took place from the 1920s to 1938 but remained hidden in secret archives until the late 1990s |
| Notes |
"Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-257) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
T︠S︡K KPSS. Politbi︠u︡ro -- History -- Sources
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| SUBJECT |
T︠S︡K KPSS. Politbi︠u︡ro fast |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936 -- Sources
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| Subject |
Soviet Union
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gregory, Paul R.
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Naimark, Norman M.
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Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace.
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| LC no. |
2008021449 |
| ISBN |
9780300152227 |
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0300152221 |
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1282352148 |
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9781282352148 |
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9786612352140 |
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6612352140 |
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