| Redefining Stalinism Contributor(s): Shukman, Harold (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0714683426 ISBN-13: 9780714683423 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $87.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2003 Annotation: "Is there a Western world leader whose reputation has not been re-analysed and reassessed, usually to his or her detriment?" With this question, Harold Shukman introduces "Redefining Stalinism," a collection of articles published 50 years after Stalin's death. With the opening of Soviet archives to an unprecedented degree since the demise of the USSR, totalitarian and revisionist arguments about Stalin and the Stalinist system can be more closely explored. Topics range from a survey of recent Western views of Stalin's Russia, to an account of Stalin's approach to intelligence, two separate analyses of totalitarianism, the politics of obligation, the cult of the dead in Soviet political memory, and the de-mythologising of Stalin in the years immediately following his death. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Political Science | Security (national & International) |
| Dewey: 947.084 |
| LCCN: 2003011125 |
| Series: Cass Series--Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.54 lbs) 180 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Born in 1879 in Georgia, Stalin joined the Bolsheviks under Lenin in 1903 and became General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1922. These edited papers reassess the deeds, policies and legacy of a man who was responsible for innumerable deaths and untold human misery. |
