This 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.
Philip Boobbyer is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is author of S.L. Frank: the Life and Work of a Russian Philosopher, 1877–1950 (Ohio University Press, 1995).
Chapter 1 Interpreting the Stalin era; Chapter 2 From Lenin to Stalin; Chapter 3 Collectivisation; Chapter 4 Industrialisation; Chapter 5 Terror; Chapter 6 Government; Chapter 7 Stalin: the man and the cult; Chapter 8 The Second World War; Chapter 9 Education and science; Chapter 10 The family; Chapter 11 Religion: The Russian Orthodox Church; Chapter 12 The artist and the state; Chapter 13 The problem of ends and means; Chapter 14 Overview;