Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- A note on transliteration
- Glossary
- 1 Joseph Stalin: power and ideas
- 2 Stalin as Georgian: the formative years
- 3 Stalin as Commissar for Nationality Affairs, 1918–1922
- 4 Stalin as General Secretary: the appointments process and the nature of Stalin's power
- 5 Stalin as Prime Minister: power and the Politburo
- 6 Stalin as dictator: the personalisation of power
- 7 Stalin as economic policy-maker: Soviet agriculture, 1931–1936
- 8 Stalin as foreign policy-maker: avoiding war, 1927–1953
- 9 Stalin as Marxist: the Western roots of Stalin's russification of Marxism
- 10 Stalin as Bolshevik romantic: ideology and mobilisation, 1917–1939
- 11 Stalin as patron of cinema: creating Soviet mass culture, 1932–1936
- 12 Stalin as producer: the Moscow show trials and the construction of mortal threats
- 13 Stalin as symbol: a case study of the personality cult and its construction
- 14 Stalin as the coryphaeus of science: ideology and knowledge in the post-war years
- Index
Glossary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- A note on transliteration
- Glossary
- 1 Joseph Stalin: power and ideas
- 2 Stalin as Georgian: the formative years
- 3 Stalin as Commissar for Nationality Affairs, 1918–1922
- 4 Stalin as General Secretary: the appointments process and the nature of Stalin's power
- 5 Stalin as Prime Minister: power and the Politburo
- 6 Stalin as dictator: the personalisation of power
- 7 Stalin as economic policy-maker: Soviet agriculture, 1931–1936
- 8 Stalin as foreign policy-maker: avoiding war, 1927–1953
- 9 Stalin as Marxist: the Western roots of Stalin's russification of Marxism
- 10 Stalin as Bolshevik romantic: ideology and mobilisation, 1917–1939
- 11 Stalin as patron of cinema: creating Soviet mass culture, 1932–1936
- 12 Stalin as producer: the Moscow show trials and the construction of mortal threats
- 13 Stalin as symbol: a case study of the personality cult and its construction
- 14 Stalin as the coryphaeus of science: ideology and knowledge in the post-war years
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- StalinA New History, pp. xi - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005