| Description |
xiii, 357 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Arnold readers in history |
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Arnold readers in history.
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| Contents |
Omnipresent conspiracy: on Soviet imagery of politics and social relations in the 1930s / G.T. Rittersporn -- How the mice buried the cat: scenes from the great purges of 1937 in the Russian provinces / S. Fitzpatrick -- Family, the school, the church: the pillars of society shaken and re-enforced / N.S. Timasheff -- New protagonists / V.S. Dunham |
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Soviet thermidor / L.D. Trotsky -- Stalin in focus / T.H. von Laue -- Decisive trifle / R.C. Tucker -- Stalin's mind / D. Volkogonov -- 'Great change' / I. Deutscher -- Politics of repression revisited / J. Arch Getty -- Debate on collectivization: was Stalin really necessary? / J.R. Millar and A. Nove -- Society, state, and ideology during the first five-year plan / M. Lewin -- Bab'i bunty and peasant women's protest during collectivization / L. Viola -- Stakhanovites in the cultural mythology of the 1930s / L.H. Siegelbaum |
| Summary |
This study of the Stalinist regime provides three different perspectives: explaining the relationship between events and Stalin's personality, viewing Stalin as part of a complex culture, and examining how the people reacted to socialism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
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| SUBJECT |
USSR -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125845
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USSR -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125847
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| Author |
Ward, Chris, 1948-
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| LC no. |
98013784 |
| ISBN |
0340706406 |
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0340706414 |
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9780340706404 |
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9780340706411 |
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