Stalinist Society

Stalinist Society

Author: Mark Edele

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2011-02-17

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0191613673

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Stalinist Society offers a fresh analytical overview of the complex social formation ruled over by Stalin and his henchmen from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. Drawing on declassified archival materials, interviews with former Soviet citizens, old and new memoirs, and personal diaries, as well as the best of sixty years of scholarship, this book offers a non-reductionist account of social upheaval and social cohesion in a society marred by violence. Combining the perspectives from above and from below, the book integrates recent writing on everyday life, culture and entertainment, ideology and politics, terror and welfare, consumption and economics. Utilizing the latest archival research on the evolution of Soviet society during and after World War II, this study also integrates the entire history of Stalinism from the late 1920s to the dictator's death in 1953. Breaking radically with current scholarly consensus, Mark Edele shows that it was not ideology, terror, or state control which held this society together, but the harsh realities of making a living in a chaotic economy which the rulers claimed to plan and control, but which in fact they could only manage haphazardly.


Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926-1934

Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926-1934

Author: David R. Shearer

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780801483851

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In an effort to crush the syndicate movement and establish tight political control over the economy, Stalinist leaders intervened with a program of radical reforms. Shearer demonstrates that many professional engineers, planners, and industrial administrators actively supported the creation of a powerful industrial state unhampered by domestic social and economic constraints.


Late Stalinist Russia

Late Stalinist Russia

Author: Juliane Fürst

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-09-27

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1134189036

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The late Stalinist period, long neglected by researchers more interested in the high-profile events of the 1930s, has recently become the focus of much new research by people keen to understand the enormous impact of the war on Soviet society and to understand Soviet life under 'mature socialism'. Written by top scholars from high profile universities, this impressive work brings together much new, cutting edge research on a wide range of aspects of late Stalinist society. Filling a gap in the literature, it focuses above all on the experience of the Soviet people and their interaction with ideology, state policy and national and international politics.


Origins of Stalinism: From Leninist Revolution to Stalinist Society

Origins of Stalinism: From Leninist Revolution to Stalinist Society

Author: Pavel Campeanu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-08

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1315494795

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By adopting the ecological process as their major theme, the contributors of this volume show how the process of human interaction with the natural environment unfolded in the past, and offer perspective on the ecological crises in our world at the beginning of the 21st century.


Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926–1934

Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926–1934

Author: David R. Shearer

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-09-05

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1501729861

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In his reexamination of the origins of the Stalinist state during the formative period of rapid industrialization in the late 1920s and early 1930s, David R. Shearer argues that a centralized state-controlled economic system was the consciously conceived political creation of Stalinist leaders rather than the inevitable by-product of socialist industrialization. Focusing on the different economic and bureaucratic cultures within the industrial system, Shearer reconstructs the debates in 1928 and 1929 over administrative, financial, and commercial reform. He uses information from recently opened archives to show that attempts by the state's trading organizations to create a commercial economy enjoyed wide support, offering a model that combined planning and rapid industrialization with social democracy and economic prosperity. In an effort to crush the syndicate movement and establish tight political control over the economy, Stalinist leaders intervened with a program of radical reforms. Shearer demonstrates that professional engineers, planners and industrial administrators in many cases actively supported the creation of a powerful industrial state unhampered by domestic social and economic constraints. The paradoxical result, Shearer shows, was a loss of control. The overly centralized system that emerged during the first Five-Year Plan was rendered incoherent by periodic economic crises and the continuing influence of partially suppressed social and market forces.


The Neo-Stalinist State

The Neo-Stalinist State

Author: Victor Zaslavsky

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-08

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1315495511

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Underlying current controversies about environmental regulation are shared concerns, divided interests and different ways of thinking about the earth and our proper relationship to it. This book brings together writings on nature and environment that illuminate thought and action in this realm.


Stalinism

Stalinism

Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780415152334

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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Politics, Society and Stalinism in the USSR

Politics, Society and Stalinism in the USSR

Author: John Channon

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1998-07-15

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1349265292

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Over the past two decades in the West there has been a substantial re-appraisal of the Stalinist period. Social historians, in particular, have focused their attention on the social dynamics of Stalinism. This collection of essays is based on a conference held at the School of Slavonic & East European Studies, the University of London, on 'Stalin and Stalinism'. The contributors have analysed specific areas of the research available on Stalin and Stalinism in the USSR debate. Their work should be placed within the context of current scholarship in the field, both in the Former Soviet Union and the West. This groundbreaking text will be critical in stimulating interest in the subject and providing material for further debate.


The Neo-Stalinist State

The Neo-Stalinist State

Author: Victor Zaslavsky

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781563244513

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Underlying current controversies about environmental regulation are shared concerns, divided interests and different ways of thinking about the earth and our proper relationship to it. This book brings together writings on nature and environment that illuminate thought and action in this realm.


Stalin's Genocides

Stalin's Genocides

Author: Norman M. Naimark

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2010-07-19

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1400836069

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The chilling story of Stalin’s crimes against humanity Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s were indeed acts of genocide and that the Soviet dictator himself was behind them. Norman Naimark, one of our most respected authorities on the Soviet era, challenges the widely held notion that Stalin's crimes do not constitute genocide, which the United Nations defines as the premeditated killing of a group of people because of their race, religion, or inherent national qualities. In this gripping book, Naimark explains how Stalin became a pitiless mass killer. He looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of Stalin's systematic destruction of his own populace—the liquidation and repression of the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities, and the Great Terror—and examines them in light of other genocides in history. In addition, Naimark compares Stalin's crimes with those of the most notorious genocidal killer of them all, Adolf Hitler.