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Stalin : a new history
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The figure of Joseph Stalin has always provoked heated and often polarized debate. In this groundbreaking study, leading international experts challenge many assumptions about Stalin from his early...
The figure of Joseph Stalin has always provoked heated and often polarized debate. In this groundbreaking study, leading international experts challenge many assumptions about Stalin from his early life in Georgia to the Cold War years, using recently declassified archive.
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- Creator
- edited by Sarah Davies and James Harris
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (311 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0511129882, 0511200420, 9780511130748, 9780521851046, 0511129211, 0511130740, 9780511300820, 0511614896, 0511130244, 0511300824, 9780511614897, 1107153875, 9780511129216, 0521851041, 9786610225675, 9780511128585, 128022567X, 9780511130243, 0511128584, 9780521616539, 0521616530
- OCLC
- ocn252488035, ocm71816712, ocm60320249
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; A note on transliteration; Glossary; 1 Joseph Stalin: power and ideas; 2 Stalin as Georgian: the formative years; 3 Stalin as Commissar for Nationality Affairs, 1918–1922; 4 Stalin as General Secretary: the appointments process and the nature of Stalin's power; 5 Stalin as Prime Minister: power and the Politburo; 6 Stalin as dictator: the personalisation of power; 7 Stalin as economic policy-maker: Soviet agriculture, 1931–1936; 8 Stalin as foreign policy-maker: avoiding war, 1927–1953
- 9 Stalin as Marxist: the Western roots of Stalin's russification of Marxism10 Stalin as Bolshevik romantic: ideology and mobilisation, 1917–1939; 11 Stalin as patron of cinema: creating Soviet mass culture, 1932–1936; 12 Stalin as producer: the Moscow show trials and the construction of mortal threats; 13 Stalin as symbol: a case study of the personality cult and its construction; 14 Stalin as the coryphaeus of science: ideology and knowledge i