1st Edition

Redefining Stalinism

Edited By Harold Shukman Copyright 2003

    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.

    Chapter 1 Introduction, Harold Shukman; Chapter 2 Stalinism and the Soviet State Order, Robert Service; Chapter 3 Stalinism, Totalitarian Society and the Politics of ‘Perfect Control’, Felix Patrikeeff; Chapter 4 Stalin’s Politics of Obligation, Jeffrey Brooks; Chapter 5 Stalin and Foreign Intelligence, Christopher Andrew, Julie Elkner; Chapter 6 Stalin’s Martyrs, Michael G. Smith; Chapter 7 From Stalinism to Post-Stalinism, Polly Jones; Chapter 8 Recent Western Views of Stalin’s Russia, John Keep;

    Biography

    Martin Coyle, Peter Garside, Malcolm Kelsall, John Peck