About this book
The figure of Joseph Stalin has always provoked heated and often polarized debate. The recent declassification of a substantial portion of Stalin's archive has made possible this fundamental new assessment of the Soviet leader. In this groundbreaking 2005 study, leading international experts challenge many assumptions about Stalin from his early life in Georgia to the Cold War years with contributions ranging across the political, economic, social, cultural, ideological and international history of the Stalin era. The volume provides a deeper understanding of the nature of Stalin's power and of the role of ideas in his politics, presenting a more complex and nuanced image of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. This study is without precedent in the field of Russian history and will prove invaluable reading for students of Stalin and Stalinism.
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Table of contents
- 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 Marxism
- 10 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 in the post-war years
- Index