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Author(s): Alter L. Litvin
ISBN(s): 9780203338926, 0203338928
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Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0203338928
ISBN 13: 9780203338926
Author: Alter L Litvin

Stalinism surveys the efforts made in recent years by professional historians, in Russia and the West, to better understand what really went on in the USSR between 1929 and 1953, when the country’s affairs were shrouded in secrecy. The opening of the Soviet archives in 1991 has led to a profusion of historical studies, whose strengths and weaknesses are assessed here impartially though not uncritically. While Joseph Stalin now emerges as a less omnipotent figure than he seemed to be at the time, most serious writers accept that the system over which he ruled was despotic and totalitarian. Some nostalgic nationalists in Russia, along with some Western post-modernists, disagree. Their arguments are carefully dissected here. Stalinism was of course much more than state sponsored terror, and so due attention is paid to a wide range of socio-economic and cultural problems. Keep and Litvin applaud the efforts of Soviet citizens to express dissenting views.

Stalinism Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millenium 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Coping With the Legacy of Stalinism: Recent Russian Writing
1. Sources
Archives
Documentary Publications
Memoirs, Diaries and Correspondence
Notes
2. Stalin’s Biography
The Young Dzhugashvili
Private Life
Stalin In Power
Notes
3. Assessing Stalin’s Role As Leader
Recent Appraisals
The Party
Economic Modernization
Notes
4. Terror
Victims
Perpetrators
The Terror and Russia’s Collective Memory
Notes
5. Foreign Policy
The Nazi–Soviet Pact
Cold War Origins
Notes
Part II: Wrestling With Revisionism: Recent Western Writing On Stalinism
6. Old Controversies, New Approaches
Revisionism and Post-Modernism
The Totalitarian Controversy
Notes
7. ‘A Peculiar New State’: Politics and Government
Stalin and the Leader Cult
The Command Economy
Militarization and Nationalism
Notes
8. Adventures In Social History: Peasants and Workers
Collectivization and Its Sequels
The Labour Scene
Towards a New Identity?
Notes
9. ‘It’s a Woman’s World’: Gender Studies and Daily Life
The Politics of Gender
Everyday Life
Notes
10. Captive Minds: Faith, Science, History
Religion and the Churches
Education and Culture
Notes
11. ‘Koba the Dread’: Repression and Terror
Logic of Violence
Successive Campaigns
The Gulag and Post-War Terror
Notes
12. No Longer a Riddle?: Aspects of Soviet Foreign Policy
From Munich to Barbarossa
Soviet–German Relations
Stalinism and Cold War Origins
The Far East
The German Question
Notes
Conclusions
Coming to Terms With Stalinism
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Russian-Language Works
Works In Western Languages

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