Stalinism: Its Nature and Aftermath: Essays in Honour of Moshe Lewin

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Nick Lampert, Gabor T. Rittersporn
Springer, 1992 M01 20 - 291 pages
This is a collection of essays (with contributors from Britain, Continental Europe and the USA) dealing with the character and aftermath of Stalinism in the USSR. The focus is on the interwar years and on the methodological problems of studying this period, but the volume highlights also the links between Stalinism and the Tsarist past, and the ways in which Stalinism, in its very formation, prepared the ground for its own demise. In this way it contributes to a historical understanding of the current upheavals in the Soviet Union.
 

Contents

Moshe Lewin
1
Problems
25
Gorbachevs Socialism in Historical Perspective
48
Ivan
77
On Soviet Imagery
101
Soviet Peasants and Soviet Literature
121
Foremen and Soviet
127
Construction Workers in the 1930s
184
Political Undercurrents
243
a Perspective
260
Index
288
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