Politics, Society and Stalinism in the USSR

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • John Channon

   Pages 1-13

3. Joseph Stalin: The Making of a Stalinist

   • Robert Service

   Pages 15-33

4. Stalinism: The Primacy of Politics

   • E. A. Rees

   Pages 35-67

5. The Origins of the Stalinist State: Power and Politics in Moscow, 1928–32

   • Catherine Merridale

   Pages 69-92

6. Stalinism and Party Organization (1933—48)

   • Silvio Pons

   Pages 93-114

7. The Leader Cult: Propaganda and its Reception in Stalin’s Russia

   • Sarah Davies

   Pages 115-137

8. Stalinism and the Graphic Arts

   • Stephen White

   Pages 139-162

9. Stalinism and the Working Class in the 1930s

   • Donald Filtzer

   Pages 163-184

10. Stalin and the Peasantry: Reassessing the Postwar Years, 1945–53

    • John Channon

    Pages 185-209

11. Back Matter

    Pages 211-220

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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.

• Europe
• Russia
• Soviet Union
• Stalin
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
• work

• School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, UK

  John Channon

SARAH DAVIES Lecturer in History, University of Durham DONALD FILTZER Reader in European Studies, University of East London CATHERINE MERRIDALE Lecturer in European History, University of Bristol SILVIO PONS Lecturer in Contemporary History, Bari University, Italy E.A. REES Senior Lecturer in Soviet History, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham ROBERT SERVICE Professor of Russian History and Politics, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London STEPHEN WHITE Professor of Politics, University of Glasgow.

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