The Stalin Era / Edition 1

by Philip Boobbyer

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415182980
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/28/2000
Series:	Routledge Sources in History
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Philip Boobbyer is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is author of S.L. Frank: the Life and Work of a Russian Philosopher, 1877–1950 (Ohio University Press, 1995).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Interpreting the Stalin era; Chapter 2 From Lenin to Stalin; Chapter 3 Collectivisation; Chapter 4 Industrialisation; Chapter 5 Terror; Chapter 6 Government; Chapter 7 Stalin: the man and the cult; Chapter 8 The Second World War; Chapter 9 Education and science; Chapter 10 The family; Chapter 11 Religion: The Russian Orthodox Church; Chapter 12 The artist and the state; Chapter 13 The problem of ends and means; Chapter 14 Overview;