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The Stalin Era (Routledge Sources in History)
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Product Description
A wide ranging history of every aspect of Stalin's dictatorship over the peoples of the Soviet Union. It places the man and his ideology into context both within pre-Revolutionary Russia, Lenin's Soviet Union and post-Stalinist Russia.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #487233 in Books
- Published on: 2000-09-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
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From the Back Cover
The Stalin Era provides a wide-ranging history of Stalin's dictatorship in the Soviet Union. Drawing upon a great range of primary sources, this book is an account of Stalinist thought and policy, and their effects. It also puts the Stalin regime into the context both of Lenin's period of rule and of the longer-term continuities of Russian history.
Topics covered include:
the rise of Stalin
collectivisation
industrialisation
terror
government
the cult of Stalin
the Second World War
education and science
the family
the Russian Orthodox Church
art and the state
