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Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism
Complexities, Contradictions, and Controversies
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Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism
Complexities, Contradictions, and Controversies
About this book
This thought-provoking collection of essays analyses the complex, multi-faceted, and even contradictory nature of Stalinism and its representations. Stalinism was an extraordinarily repressive and violent political model, and yet it was led by ideologues committed to a vision of socialism and international harmony. The essays in this volume stress the complex, multi-faceted, and often contradictory nature of Stalin, Stalinism, and Stalinist-style leadership, and. explore the complex picture that emerges. Broadly speaking, three important areas of debate are examined, united by a focus on political leadership: * The key controversies surrounding Stalin's leadership role
* A reconsideration of Stalin and the Cold War
* New perspectives on the cult of personality Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism is a crucial volume for all students and scholars of Stalin's Russia and Cold War Europe.
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Yes, you can access Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism by James Ryan, Susan Grant, James Ryan,Susan Grant in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & 20th Century History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on transliteration
- Introduction: Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism
- Part One The Controversial Vozhd’: Stalin as Leader and Statesman
- 1 The many lives of Joseph Stalin: Writing the biography of a ‘monster’
- 2 Stalin’s purge of the Red Army and misperception of security threats
- 3 Stalin and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939: The new historiography
- 4 Brute force and genius: Stalin as war leader
- Part Two Challenging Stalinist Models: Cults of Personality
- 5 The Stalin cult in comparative context
- 6 From heroic lion to streetfighter: Historical legacies and the leader cult in twentieth-century Hungary
- Part Three New Ways of Understanding the Stalinist System: The Cold War
- 7 Revisioning Stalin’s Cold War
- 8 Working towards the Vozhd’? Stalin and the peace movement
- 9 Constructing a confession: The language and psychology of interrogations in Stalinist Czechoslovakia
- Part Four In Lieu of an Epilogue
- 10 Reckoning with the past: Stalin and Stalinism in Putin’s Russia
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Geoffrey Roberts Select Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright