The Nature Of Stalin S Dictatorship

Author : E. A. Rees
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230524286

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The Nature of Stalin's Dictatorship by E. A. Rees Pdf

This is the first attempt to systematically study the nature of the political leadership system under Stalin. It focuses both on the formal institutions of power, such as the Politburo, and on the informal networks of decision-making that were a central feature of his system of rule. It draws on a wealth of new archival material to highlight Stalin's relations with his co-leaders and wider elite groups, and offers different perspectives on the nature and degree of Stalin's system of personal power.

Author : Christoper Edward Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317762256

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The Stalinist Dictatorship by Christoper Edward Ward Pdf

From the late 1920s onwards, forced collectivisation, state-directed industrialisation, mass purging and the party's control of culture, refashioned Russia and gave birth to a new type of society. The 'second revolution' and its aftermath remodelled the Soviet State and the Bolshevik party, restructured all institutions and reconstituted all social relationships. Millions found their lives changed forever. Nothing was untouched and no one was unaffected. Presiding over these momentous changes was Joseph Stalin, one of the twentieth century's most disturbing figures. "The Stalinst Dictatorship" looks at the regime from three different perspectives. Section one focuses on interpretations of Stalin's character and attempts to explain the everlasting puzzle of the relationship between events and personality. Section two looks at Stalin's role within the Soviet Union, and sees him as only one part (albeit an important one) of a complex culture of politics and administration. The final section examines the ways in which the Soviet people handled socialism, and how Stalinism functioned on the ground. The vicissitudes in Stalin's reputation reflect the vicissitudes of the history of the twentieth century itself. Stalin became a symbol of a new system, a 'socialist' alternative to the capatilist path.

Author : Richard Lourie
Publisher : Counterpoint LLC
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015043779761

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The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin by Richard Lourie Pdf

In these pages, Stalin's psychology is fully revealed, every atom of his madness explored, every twist of his homicidal logic followed to its ruthless conclusion.

Author : Erik van Ree
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135786045

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The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin by Erik van Ree Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the political thought of Joseph Stalin. Making full use of the documentation that has recently become available, including Stalin's private library with his handwritten margin notes, the book provides many insights on Stalin, and also on western and Russian Marxist intellectual traditions. Overall, the book argues that Stalin's political thought is not primarily indebted to the Russian autocratic tradition, but belongs to a tradition of revolutionary patriotism that stretches back through revolutionary Marxism to Jacobin thought in the French Revolution. It makes interesting comparisons between Stalin, Lenin, Bukharin and Trotsky, and explains a great deal about the mindset of those brought up in the Stalinist era, and about the era's many key problems, including the industrial revolution from above, socialist cultural policy, Soviet treatment of nationalities, pre-war and Cold War foreign policy, and the purges.

Author : Sarah Davies,James Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521616530

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Stalin by Sarah Davies,James Harris Pdf

The recent declassification of a substantial portion of Stalin's archive has made possible this fundamental new assessment of the controversial Soviet leader. Leading international experts accordingly 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 more profound understanding of Stalin's power and one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century.

Author : Robert V. Daniels
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300134933

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The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia by Robert V. Daniels Pdf

Distinguished historian of the Soviet period Robert V. Daniels offers a penetrating survey of the evolution of the Soviet system and its ideology. In a tightly woven series of analyses written during his career-long inquiry into the Soviet Union, Daniels explores the Soviet experience from Karl Marx to Boris Yeltsin and shows how key ideological notions were altered as Soviet history unfolded. The book exposes a long history of American misunderstanding of the Soviet Union, leading up to the "grand surprise" of its collapse in 1991. Daniels's perspective is always original, and his assessments, some worked out years ago, are strikingly prescient in the light of post-1991 archival revelations. Soviet Communism evolved and decayed over the decades, Daniels argues, through a prolonged revolutionary process, combined with the challenges of modernization and the personal struggles between ideologues and power-grabbers.

Author : Олег Витальевич Хлевнюк
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300110669

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Master of the House by Олег Витальевич Хлевнюк Pdf

Based on meticulous research in previously unavailable documents in the Soviet archives, this compelling book illuminates the secret inner mechanisms of power in the Soviet Union during the years when Stalin established his notorious dictatorship. Oleg V. Khlevniuk focuses on the top organ in Soviet Russia’s political hierarchy of the 1930s--the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party--and on the political and interpersonal dynamics that weakened its collective leadership and enabled Stalin’s rise. Khlevniuk’s unparalleled research challenges existing theories of the workings of the Politburo and uncovers many new findings regarding the nature of alliances among Politburo members, Sergei Kirov’s murder, the implementation of the Great Terror, and much more. The author analyzes Stalin’s mechanisms of generating and retaining power and presents a new understanding, unmatched in texture and depth, of the highest tiers of the Communist Party in a crucial era of Soviet history.

Author : Peter Kenez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139451024

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A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End by Peter Kenez Pdf

An examination of political, social and cultural developments in the Soviet Union. The book identifies the social tensions and political inconsistencies that spurred radical change in the government of Russia, from the turn of the century to the revolution of 1917. Kenez envisions that revolution as a crisis of authority that posed the question, 'Who shall govern Russia?' This question was resolved with the creation of the Soviet Union. Kenez traces the development of the Soviet Union from the Revolution, through the 1920s, the years of the New Economic Policies and into the Stalinist order. He shows how post-Stalin Soviet leaders struggled to find ways to rule the country without using Stalin's methods but also without openly repudiating the past, and to negotiate a peaceful but antipathetic coexistence with the capitalist West. In this second edition, he also examines the post-Soviet period, tracing Russia's development up to the time of publication.

Author : Geoffrey Roberts
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300179040

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Stalin's Library by Geoffrey Roberts Pdf

A biography as well as an intellectual portrait, this book explores all aspects of Stalin's tumultuous life and politics, told through his personal library. Stalin, an avid reader from an early age, amassed a surprisingly diverse personal collection of thousands of books, many of which he marked and annotated revealing his intimate thoughts, feelings, and beliefs

Author : Diane P. Koenker,Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1780393806

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Revelations from the Russian Archives by Diane P. Koenker,Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Ian Kershaw,Moshe Lewin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521565219

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Stalinism and Nazism by Ian Kershaw,Moshe Lewin Pdf

The internationally distinguished contributors to this landmark volume represent a variety of approaches to the Nazi and Stalinist regimes. These far-reaching essays provide the raw materials towards a comparative analysis and offer the means to deepen and extend research in the field. The first section highlights similarities and differences in the leadership cults at the heart of the dictatorships. The second section moves to the 'war machines' engaged in the titanic clash of the regimes between 1941 and 1945. A final section surveys the shifting interpretations of successor societies as they have faced up to the legacy of the past. Combined, the essays presented here offer unique perspectives on the most violent and inhumane epoch in modern European history.

Author : B. Apor,J. Behrends,P. Jones,E. Rees
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230518216

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The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships by B. Apor,J. Behrends,P. Jones,E. Rees Pdf

The first book to analyze the distinct leader cults that flourished in the era of 'High Stalinism' as an integral part of the system of dictatorial rule in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Fifteen studies explore the way in which these cults were established, their function and operation, their dissemination and reception, the place of the cults in art and literature, the exportation of the Stalin cult and its implantment in the communist states of Eastern Europe, and the impact which de-Stalinisation had on these cults.

Author : B. McLoughlin,K. McDermott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230523937

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Stalin’s Terror by B. McLoughlin,K. McDermott Pdf

The British, Irish, Russian, American, German and Austrian contributors examine the intricate nature of the mass repression unleashed by the Stalinist leader of the USSR during 1937-38. The first part of the collection deals with annihilation policies against the Soviet elite and the Communist International. The second section of the volume looks at mass operations of the secret police (NKVD) against social outcasts, Poles and other 'hostile' ethnic groups. The final section comprises micro-studies about targeted victim groups among the general population.

Author : Laurence Rees
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610399661

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Hitler and Stalin by Laurence Rees Pdf

An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them. Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to exterminate each other in sweeping campaigns unlike anything the modern world had ever seen, affecting soldiers and civilians alike. Millions of miles of Eastern Europe were ruined in their fight to the death, millions of lives sacrificed. Laurence Rees has met more people who had direct experience of working for Hitler and Stalin than any other historian. Using their evidence he has pieced together a compelling comparative portrait of evil, in which idealism is polluted by bloody pragmatism, and human suffering is used casually as a political tool. It's a jaw-dropping description of two regimes stripped of moral anchors and doomed to destroy each other, and those caught up in the vicious magnetism of their leadership.

Author : Andy Bruno
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107144712

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The Nature of Soviet Power by Andy Bruno Pdf

This in-depth exploration of five industries in the Kola Peninsula examines Soviet power and its interaction with the natural world.