The Stalin Years A Reader

Christopher Read takes students through the history of the Stalin years, covering the key points of his rule from the late 1920s to the postwar years, using post-Soviet articles which provide more balanced and scholarly assessments of the leader's time in power. Taken together with Read's own contributions, which include an up-to-date historiographic survey, they constitute a complex and dynamic history of the central features of a terrible era.

Christopher Read is Professor of History, University of Warwick.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgements

x

Glossary

xii

Notes on the Contributors

xvi

Stalin's Life and Times

xvii

I MAIN CURRENTS OF INTERPRETATION OF STALIN AND THE STALIN YEARS

1

(22)

During Stalin's Lifetime

1

(8)

Cold War, the Death of Stalin and the Rise of the Totalitarian Thesis

9

(4)

The Rise of Revisionism

13

(3)

Perestroika and After

16

(7)

II CULTURAL REVOLUTION

23

(43)

Social Modernization

23

(2)

`The Modernization of Russian Motherhood, 1917--37'

25

(16)

Elizabeth Waters

Towards the `New Soviet Person': the Assault on Religion

38

(3)

`The 1929 Congress of the Godless'

41

(25)

Daniel Peris

III INDUSTRIALIZATION AND COLLECTIVIZATION

66

(36)

The Drive to Industrialize

66

(4)

`Building the ``Soviet Detroit'': the Construction of the Nizhnii-Novgorod Automobile Factory, 1927--32'

70

(16)

Kurt S. Schultz

The Assault on the Peasantry

83

(3)

`Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932--3'

86

(16)

R. W. Davies

M. B. Tauger

S. G. Wheatcroft

IV THE GREAT TERROR

102

(43)

Why Did the Terror Take Place?

102

(2)

`The Objectives of the Great Terror, 1937--87'

104

(17)

Oleg Khlevnyuk

The Purges in the Provinces

119

(2)

`How the Mice Buried the Cat: Scenes from the Great Purges of 1937 in the Russian Provinces'

121

(24)

Sheila Fitzpatrick

V THE GREAT FATHERLAND WAR

145

(24)

`Soviet Women at War'

148

(21)

John Erickson

VI THE FINAL YEARS

169

(44)

The Cold War

169

(1)

`Moscow and the Marshall Plan: Politics, Ideology and the Onset of the Cold War, 1947'

170

(22)

Geoffrey Roberts

Stalin's Dictatorship in the Final Years

189

(3)

`Stalin's Cabinet: the Politburo and Decision Making in the Postwar Years'

192

(21)

Yoram Gorlizki

VII SOME REFLECTIONS ON STALINISM

213

(12)

Stalinism as a Civilization

213

(1)

`Stalinism as a Civilization'

213

(12)

Stephen Kotkin

The Emerging Picture: Some Concluding Thoughts

225

(6)

Bibliography

231

(5)

Index

236

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