Research Catalog

Title

Stalin's Russia / Chris Ward.

Author

Ward, Chris, 1948-

Publication

London : Arnold ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

xxvi, 278 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Summary

• "The ebb and flow of debate about Stalin's Russia is captured in Chris Ward's account, which not only conceptualizes the field in a clear and helpful way and offers a synthesis of the vast secondary literature in the area but also provides the author's own evaluation of the key issues at stake. The second edition retains all the virtues of the first but is able to take more account of the new opportunities afforded to historians - both Russian and Western - by the collapse of Communism and the greater availability to researchers of archival sources unscreened by a regime determined its valuation of the past should prevail.
• In addition, in recognition of the importance to Stalin's regime of foreign policy, that area now has an entirely new chapter dedicated to it."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Reading history

Uniform Title

Reading history

Subject

• Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
• Stalin, Iosif V
• 1925-1953
• Soviet Union > History > 1925-1953

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Recovering Stalin's Russia. -- The rise of Stalin, 1917-1929. -- Industrialization, 1924-1941. -- Collectivization, 1927-1941. -- Purges and politics, 1928-1941. -- Foreign policy and the Comintern, 1922-1941. -- War and late Stalinism, 1941-1953. -- Culture and society, 1928-1953.

ISBN

0340731516

LCCN

^^^99461896^^

OCLC

• 41575159
• SCSB-12767383

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library