Stalin : a new history
Davies, Sarah2005
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In this study, leading 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.
Main title:
Stalin : a new history / by Sarah Davies (Editor) and James Harris (Editor)
Author:
Imprint:
Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2005
Collation:
308 p.
Contents:
1. Joseph Stalin: power and ideas Sarah Davies and James Harris; 2. Stalin as Georgian: the formative years Alfred Rieber; 3. Stalin as commissar for nationalities affairs, 1918-1922 Jeremy Smith; 4. Stalin as General Secretary: the appointments process and the nature of Stalin's power James Harris; 5. Stalin as 'Prime Minister': power and the Politburo J. Arch Getty; 6. Stalin as dictator: the personalisation of power Oleg Khlevniuk; 7. Stalin as economic policy-maker: Soviet agriculture, 1931-1936 R. W. Davies; 8. Stalin as foreign policy-maker: avoiding war, 1927-1953 Alfred Rieber; 9. Stalin as Marxist: the western roots of Stalin's Russification of Marxism Erik van Ree; 10. Stalin as Bolshevik Romantic: ideology and mobilisation, 1917-1939 David Priestland; 11. Stalin as patron of cinema: creating Soviet mass culture, 1932-36 Sarah Davies; 12. Stalin as producer: the Moscow show trials and the construction of mortal threats William Chase; 13. Stalin as symbol: a case study of the personality cult and its construction David Brandenberger; 14. Stalin as the Coryphaeus of science: ideology and knowledge in the postwar years Ethan Pollock.
ISBN:
0521616530 (pbk)
Dewey class:
947.0842 STA
Local class:
947.0842
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
770
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 947.0842 STA | Available |