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Redefining Stalinism
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Born in 1879 in Georgia, Stalin joined the Bolsheviks under Lenin in 1903 and became General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1922. These edited papers reassess the deeds, policies and legacy of a man who was responsible for innumerable deaths and untold human misery.
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Index
Abakumov, Viktor, 82–83
Abwehr, 79, 80
administrative system, corrupt and untrustworthy, 13
administrators, sectional interests, 15
Afghanistan, 18
agency, theft of, 47–48, 64, 65
agriculture, collectivisation, 10
Akhmatova, Anna, 65
Aladzhalov, 127, 128
Alliluyeva, Svetlana, 71
Andreev, A.A., 55
Andrew, Christopher, 69
Andropov, Yuri, 17
Armenia, 59
Armenian Orthodox Church, 157
Aron, Raymond, 27–29, 30
Arsenidze, R., 101
artists, 58–61
asceticism, 51–52, 99
atheism, state-sponsored, 156–157
atomic bomb, Soviet, 84,89 n3
Austria, 77
Azerbaijan, 71, 102
Babel, Isaac, 58, 60
Baku, 101–102
Baku Commune, 104–105
Bakunin, Mikhail, 113
Batum, 100
Bazhanov, Boris, 84
Beck, Jozef, 74
Belarus, 159
Beneš, Eduard, 73
Beria, L.P., 71, 80, 82, 84, 128
Bernstein, Frances, 154
biology, Soviet, 158
blat, 52–53
Bloody Sunday (1905), 103
Blunt, Anthony, 81–82, 89 n3
Bolshevik Party, 35
Bolsheviks, 97, 116–117
legitimisation, 49
martyrdom and ritual, 98–103
bomb plot 1944, 82–83
Borodin, Mikhail, 29
Bourdieu, Pierre, 49–50
Brezhnev, L.I., 4, 11, 14, 15, 16–17, 20
bribery,...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Stalinism and the Soviet State Order
- Stalinism, Totalitarian Society and the Politics of ‘Perfect Control’
- Stalin’s Politics of Obligation
- Stalin and Foreign Intelligence
- Stalin’s Martyrs: The Tragic Romance of the Russian Revolution
- From Stalinism to Post-Stalinism: De-Mythologising Stalin, 1953–56
- Recent Western Views of Stalin’s Russia: Social and Cultural Aspects
- Abstracts
- About the Contributors
- Index