1st Edition

The Stalinist Dictatorship

Edited By Christoper Edward Ward Copyright 1998
376 Pages
by Routledge

372 Pages
by Routledge

376 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Approaching Stalin; situating Stalin; Stalin's personality; approaching Stalinism; absence and presence; rationality and irrationality; living Stalinism; the second revolution and after; the purges; Stalinist culture.

Biography

Christoper Edward Ward