Politics, Society and Stalinism in the USSR

Annotation Over the past two decades in the West there has been a substantial re-appraisal of the Stalinist period. Social historians, in particular, have focused their attention on the social dynamics of Stalinism. This collection of essays is based on a conference held at the School of Slavonic & East European Studies, the University of London, on 'Stalin and Stalinism'. The contributors have analysed specific areas of the research available on Stalin and Stalinism in the USSR debate. Their work should be placed within the context of current scholarship in the field, both in the Former Soviet Union and the West. This groundbreaking text will be critical in stimulating interest in the subject and providing material for further debate One of the major features of the social landscape of the new states of Eastern Europe and the former USSR is migration, whether voluntary or coerced. The decline of communism in both East and Central Europe and the fall of the Soviet empire have created new population and ethnic problems. The recent exodus has proved to be the largest migration wave reported in Europe in over 40 years. The problem of foreigners in Poland is a subject scarcely studied and insufficiently described. This groundbreaking work contains the latest data and results of research (quantitative as well as qualitative) on the movement of foreigners into Poland. Over the past two decades in the West there has been a substantial re-appraisal of the Stalinist period. Social historians, in particular, have focused their attention on the social dynamics of Stalinism. The contributors have analyzed specific areas of the research available on Stalin and Stalinism in the USSR debate. Their work should be placed within the context of current scholarship in the field, both in the former Soviet Union and the West. This groundbreaking text will be critical in stimulating interest in the subject and providing material for future debate. Cover Politics, Society and Stalinism in the USSR Contents Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction 2 Joseph Stalin: The Making of a Stalinist 3 Stalinism: The Primacy of Politics 4 The Origins of the Stalinist State: Power and Politics in Moscow, 1928-32 5 Stalinism and Party Organization (1933-48) 6 The Leader Cult: Propaganda and its Reception in Stalin's Russia 7 Stalinism and the Graphic Arts 8 Stalinism and the Working Class in the 1930s 9 Stalin and the Peasantry: Reassessing the Postwar Years, 1945-53 Index This is a groundbreaking text; the contributors have analysed specific areas of the research available on Stalin and Stalinism in the USSR debate. A useful work for departments of Russian studies, history, politics and international relations Focusing on the crucial relationship between education and civic culture, this text provides up-to-date coverage with translations of work by Finnish, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Czech and Russian specialists Edited By John Channon. In Association With School Of Slavonic And East European Studies, University Of London. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.