Read more
Zusatztext a truly interesting book presenting recent research in a coherent framework. It is a clear and fundamentally honest account, required reading for the specialist as much as for the reader freshly encountering the subject. Informationen zum Autor Mark Edele is Associate Professor of History at the University of Western Australia and is the author of Soviet Veterans of the Second World War. A Popular Movement in an Authoritarian Society, 1941-1991 (2008), which is also published by Oxford University Press. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Part I 1: A Stalinist Life Part II 2: Forces of Destruction 3: Patterns of Chaos 4: Family Chronicles 5: Limping Behemoth 6: Utopia, Apocalypse, and the Weather 7: 'Thank You, Comrade Stalin!' 8: Economy of Scarcity, Economy of Favors Part III 9: Politics of History Select Bibliography Index
