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The lost Politburo transcripts : from collective rule to Stalin's dictatorship
- Title
- The lost Politburo transcripts : from collective rule to Stalin's dictatorship / edited by Paul R. Gregory and Norman Naimark.
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution, Stanford University ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008], ©2008.
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- Description
- viii, 271 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "In this book, prominent Western and Russian scholars examine the "lost" transcripts of the Soviet Politburo, a set of verbatim accounts of meetings that took place from the 1920s to 1938 but remained hidden in secret archives until the late 1990s. Never intended for publication or wide distribution, these records (known as stenograms in Russia) reveal the actual process of decision making at the highest levels of the Soviet Communist Party. The transcripts also provide new, firsthand records of the rise of Stalin's dictatorship." "The contributors to the volume explore the power struggles among the Politburo members, their methods of discourse and propaganda, and their economic policies."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- The Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
- Uniform Title
- Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-257) and index.
- Contents
- I. Introduction -- 1. Findings and Perspectives / Norman Naimark -- 2. The Politburo's Role as Revealed by the Lost Transcripts / Paul Gregory -- II. The Power Struggle -- 3. Stalin in the Light of the Politburo Transcripts / Hiroaki Kuromiya -- 4. "Class Brothers Unite!" The British General Strike and the Formation of the "United Opposition" / Alexander Vatlin -- 5. Stalin, Syrtsov, Lominadze: Preparations for the "Second Great Breakthrough" / Oleg Khlevniuk -- 6. The "Right Opposition" and the "Smirnov-Eismont-Tolmachev Affair" / Charters Wynn -- III. Discourse, Ideology, and Propaganda -- 7. The Way They Talked Then: The Discourse of Politics in the Soviet Party Politburo in the Late 1920s / Robert Service -- 8. Making the Unthinkable Thinkable: Language Microhistory of Politburo Meetings / Leona Toker -- 9. The Short Course of the History of the All-Union Communist Party: The Distorted Mirror of Party Propaganda / Rustem Nureev -- IV. Economic Policy -- 10. Grain, Class, and Politics During NEP: The Politburo Meeting of December 10, 1925 / R. W. Davies -- 11. The Politburo on Gold, Industrialization, and the International Economy, 1925-1926 / David M. Woodruff -- 12. Prices in the Politburo, 1927: Market Equilibrium versus the Use of Force / Mark Harrison.
- ISBN
- 9780300134247 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 030013424X (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008021449
- 40016006546
- OCLC
- ocn223871593
- 223871593
- SCSB-5439007
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries