Stalinism : the essential readings / / edited by David L. Hoffmann.

• Superior document: Blackwell essential readings in history
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Hoffmann, David L. 1961-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Blackwell essential readings in history.
• Physical Description: xiv, 317 p.

Table of Contents

Stalin's role : Stalin and his Stalinism : power and authority in the Soviet Union, 1930-1953 / Ronald Grigor Suny -- Social origins : grappling with Stalinism / Moshe Lewin -- Socialist ideology : the Soviet tragedy : a history of socialism in Russia / Martin Malia -- The foreign threat : the objectives of the Great Terror, 1937-38 / Oleg Khlevnyuk -- The welfare state : magnetic mountain : Stalinism as a civilization / Stephen Kotkin -- State violence : state violence as technique : the logic of violence in Soviet totalitarianism / Peter Holquist -- Resistance and conformity : everyday Stalinism : ordinary life in extraordinary times / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Stalinist subjectivity : working, struggling, becoming : Stalin-era autobiographical texts / Jochen Hellbeck -- Women and gender : women in Soviet society : equality, development, and social change / Gail Warshofsky Lapidus -- Ethnicity and nationality : nature and nurture in a socialist utopia : delineating the Soviet socio-ethnic body in the age of socialism / Amir Weiner -- The postwar years : Russia after the war : hopes, illusions, and disappointments / Elena Zubkova.