Stalin and Russia, 1924-1953

Stalin and Russia, 1924-1953

Author: Niall Rothnie

Publisher: VCTA

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 9780333529775

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A text for the student to gain knowledge about primary sources in the study of history.


Policing Stalin's Socialism

Policing Stalin's Socialism

Author: David R. Shearer

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 0300156227

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Policing Stalin's Socialism is one of the first books to emphasize the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. Based on extensive examination of new archival materials, David Shearer finds that most repression during the Stalinist dictatorship of the 1930s was against marginal social groups such as petty criminals, deviant youth, sectarians, and the unemployed and unproductive. It was because Soviet leaders regarded social disorder as more of a danger to the state than political opposition that they instituted a new form of class war to defend themselves against this perceived threat. Despite the combined work of the political and civil police the efforts to cleanse society failed; this failure set the stage for the massive purges that decimated the country in the late 1930s.


Stalin and the Soviet Union

Stalin and the Soviet Union

Author: Josh Brooman

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13:

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Trotsky - Collectives & Kulaks - Five year plans - Labour camps - Purges - Show trials.


The Stalin Years

The Stalin Years

Author: Evan Mawdsley

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780719046001

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This book looks at the entire Stalin era, and includes chapters on ideology, politics, economic development, social change, nationalities, culture and external relations. The final chapter deals with the Great Terror.


Stalin and the Lubianka

Stalin and the Lubianka

Author: David R. Shearer

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 0300171897

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This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization, and fortunes of the political police and security organs from the early 1920s until Stalin’s death in 1953, and it provides documented detail about how Stalin used these organs to achieve and maintain undisputed power. Although written as a narrative, it includes translations of more than 170 documents from Soviet archives.


Mass Culture in Soviet Russia

Mass Culture in Soviet Russia

Author: James Von Geldern

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1995-12-22

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9780253209696

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This anthology offers a rich array of documents, short fiction, poems, songs, plays, movie scripts, comic routines, and folklore to offer a close look at the mass culture that was consumed by millions in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1953. Both state-sponsored cultural forms and the unofficial culture that flourished beneath the surface are represented. The focus is on the entertainment genres that both shaped and reflected the social, political, and personal values of the regime and the masses. The period covered encompasses the Russian Revolution and Civil War, the mixed economy and culture of the 1920s, the tightly controlled Stalinist 1930s, the looser atmosphere of the Great Patriotic War, and the postwar era ending with the death of Stalin. Much of the material appears here in English for the first time. A companion 45-minute audio tape (ISBN 0-253-32911-6) features contemporaneous performances of fifteen popular songs of the time, with such favorites as "Bublichki," "The Blue Kerchief," and "Katyusha." Russian texts of the songs are included in the book.


History for the IB Diploma Paper 3 The Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia (1924–2000)

History for the IB Diploma Paper 3 The Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia (1924–2000)

Author: Allan Todd

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1316503690

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Comprehensive books to support study of History for the IB Diploma Paper 3, revised for first assessment in 2017. This coursebook covers Paper 3, History of Europe, Topic 16: The Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia (1924-2000) of the History for the IB Diploma syllabus for first assessment in 2017. Tailored to the Higher Level requirements of the IB syllabus and written by experienced IB History examiners and teachers, it offers authoritative and engaging guidance through the topic.