{"product_id":"reflections-on-stalinism-hardback-9781501775543","title":"Reflections on Stalinism (Hardback) 9781501775543","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReflections on Stalinism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJ. Arch Getty (Edited by), Lewis H. Siegelbaum (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501775543\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e246 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders with an interest in Stalinism will benefit from the collective reflections proffered by these scholars. Recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReflections on Stalinism \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003edistills decades of historical thought and research, bringing together twelve senior scholars of Soviet history who began their careers during the Cold War to examine their views of Stalinism. \u003c\/b\u003eThey present insights into the role of personality in statecraft, the social underpinnings of dictatorship and state terrorism, historians' attachments to their subjects, historical causality, the applicability of Marxist categories to Soviet history, the relationship of Soviet history to post-Soviet Russia, and more. Essays address the transformation of a peasant country into a superpower and the causes and scale of domestic bloodshed. \u003ci\u003eReflections on Stalinism\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately tackles an age-old question: Do powerful people make history or are they the product of it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Reflecting on Reflections\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart One: The Social\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e1. Personal Reflections on Stalinism and Social History\u003cbr\u003e 2. Revisiting Stalinist Social Mobility\u003cbr\u003e 3. Marxism and the Study of the Stalinist System\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Two: Mass Repression\/Terror\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e4. Stalinism, the Terror, and Social History\u003cbr\u003e 5. Lost and Found Revolutions: Between Emancipatory Dreams and Mass Terror in the Soviet Union\u003cbr\u003e 6. Wrestling with Aspects of Interwar Stalinism\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Three: Beliefs and Emotions\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e7. Affective Dispositions, Bolshevism and Stalinism: The Rational Actor in His Emotional Environment\u003cbr\u003e 8. Fear, Belief, and Stalinism\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Four: The Ideological\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e9. Stalin as Historian and Legalist\u003cbr\u003e 10. Stalin as Revolutionary Social Democrat\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Five: The Spatial\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e11. Power, Violence, and Rurality in the Soviet Union in the 1930s\u003cbr\u003e 12. How I Learned to Read Stalin's Time in Space\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52608270336280,"sku":"9781501775543","price":86.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/reflections-on-stalinism-hardback-9781501775543","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}