The lost Politburo transcripts : from collective rule to Stalin's dictatorship / / edited by Paul R. Gregory and Norman Naimark.

• Superior document: The Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Gregory, Paul R.; Naimark, Norman M.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.
• Physical Description: viii, 271 p. :; ill.
• Notes: "Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University."

Table of Contents

Findings and perspectives / Norman Naimark -- The Politburo's role as revealed by the lost transcripts / Paul Gregory -- Stalin in the light of the Politburo transcripts / Hiroaki Kuromiya -- "Class bothers unite!" the British general strike and the formation of the "united opposition" / Alexander Vatlin -- Stalin, Syrtsov, Lominadze : preparations for the "second great breakthrough" / Oleg Khlevniuk -- The "right opposition" and the "Smirnov-Eismont-Tolmachev affair" / Charters Wynn -- The way they talked then : the discourse of politics in the Soviet Party Politburo in the late 1920s / Robert Service -- Making the unthinkable thinkable : language microhistory of Politburo meetings / Leona Toker -- The short course of the history of the all-union Communist Party : the distorted mirror of party propaganda / Rustem Nureev -- Grain, class, and politics during NEP : the Politburo meeting of december 10, 1925 / R.W. Davies -- The Politburo on gold, industrialization, and the international economy, 1925-1926 / David M. Woodruff -- Prices in the Politburo, 1927 : market equilibrium versus the use of force / Mark Harrison.