This book provides a wide-ranging history of every aspect of Stalin's dictatorship over the peoples of the Soviet Union. Drawing upon a huge array of primary and secondary sources, The Stalin Era is a first-hand account of Stalinist thought, policy and and their effects. It places the man and his ideology into context both within pre-Revolutionary Russia, Lenin's Soviet Union and post-Stalinist Russia. The Stalin Era examines: * collectivisation * industrialisation * terror * government * the Cult of Stalin * education and Science * family * religion: The Russian Orthodox Church * art and the state.

Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a cross-section of some of the best work being done on a critical period of Russia and the Soviet Union.

This book brings together for the first time a collection of essays by western scholars about women in the Stalin era (1928-53). It explores both the realities of women's lived experience in the 1930s and 1940s, and the various forms in which womanhood and femininity were represented and constructed in these decades. Women in the Stalin Era challenges the scholarly neglect women's history has suffered at the hands, and pens, of Russian and western historians of the Stalin period.

This book focuses on the extent to which Soviet scholars and cultural theoreticians were able to act autonomously during the Stalin era. The authors question how we should consider certain intellectual achievements which took place despite the pressure of Stalinism, and how best to recognise and describe such achievements. The chapters in this book offer suggestions for new interpretations on Soviet philosophy of science and humanities, linguistics, philosophy, musicology, literature and mathematics from the point of view of general cultural theory. In this way, they challenge the received image of the Stalin-era humanities which reduces them into mere propaganda. Intended for scholars of Russian and Soviet studies, this book will dispel many received views about the character of Stalinism and Soviet culture. Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6, 10 and 13 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

A panoramic survey of nearly a century of Russian films on wars and wartime from World War I to more recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya, with heavy emphasis on films pertaining to World War II.

Deutscher, I. The leader and the party.--Erlich, A. The problem of industrial development.--Daniels, R.V. The struggle with right opposition.--Bauer, R.A. Ideological revision.--Stalin, J. The socialist drive.--Nove, A. Economics and personality.--Gordon, M. The fate of the workers.--Lewin, M. Collectivization: the reasons.--Fainsod, M. Collectivization: the method.--Dallin, D.J. The return of inequality.--Counts, G.S. The repudiation of experiment.--Brown, E.J. The mobilization of culture.--Bukharin, N. The crackdown on the party.--Khrushchev, N.S. The cult of personality.--Billington, J.H. The legacy of Russian history.--Schlesinger, R. The logic of the revolution.--Ponomaryov, B.N. Fulfilling the Leninist plan.--Trotsky, L. Soviet Bonapartism.--Friedrich, C.J. and Brzezinski, Z.K. The model of totalitarianism.--Medvedev, R.A. The social basis of Stalinism.--Suggestions for further reading (p. 230-233).

What was the true nature of Joseph Stalin's regime, and how should we assess its place in the political history of our century? In this remarkably comprehensive book (first published in Italy in 1982), Giuseppe Boffa seeks to answer these deceptively simple questions, and in the process provides the first authoritative guide to the hodgepodge of conflicting interpretations advanced to explain the genesis and influence of Stalin's regime.