The Stalin EraThis book provides a wide-ranging history of every aspect of Stalin's dictatorship over the peoples of the Soviet Union. Drawing upon a huge array of primary and secondary sources, The Stalin Era is a first-hand account of Stalinist thought, policy and and their effects. It places the man and his ideology into context both within pre-Revolutionary Russia, Lenin's Soviet Union and post-Stalinist Russia. The Stalin Era examines: * collectivisation * industrialisation * terror * government * the Cult of Stalin * education and Science * family * religion: The Russian Orthodox Church * art and the state. |
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Contents
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3 Collectivisation | 29 |
4 Industrialisation | 48 |
5 Terror | 65 |
6 Government | 83 |
The man and the cult | 100 |
8 The Second World War | 118 |
10 The family | 152 |
The Russian Orthodox Church | 169 |
12 The artist and the state | 187 |
13 The problem of ends and means | 204 |
14 Overview | 220 |
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9 Education and science | 136 |
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