Essays on Revolutionary Culture and Stalinism

Foreword by R. C. Elwood - 5
Editorial Board - 6
Introduction by John W. Strong - 7
Richard Stites, Festival and Revolution: The Role of Public Spectacle in Russia, 1917-1918 - 9
Gabriele Gorzka, Proletarian Culture in Practice: Worker's Clubs, 1917-1921 - 29
Felix Patrikeeff, Russian and Soviet Economic Penetration of North-Eastern China, 1895-1933 - 56
Ben-Cion Pinchuk, Sovietization of the Shtetl of Eastern Poland, 1939-1941 - 71
Michal Reiman, The Russian Revolution and Stalinism: Apolitical Problem and Its Historiographic Content - 80
Pierre Broué, Party Opposition to Stalin (1930-1932) and the First Moscow Trial - 98
Graeme Gill, Stalinism and Institutionalization: The Nature of Stalin's Regional Support - 112
Niels E. Rosenfeldt, Stalinism as a System of Communication - 139
Michael Gelb, Mass Politics under Stalinism: Two Case Studies - 166
William Chase and J. Arch Getty, The Soviet Bureaucracy in 1935: A Socio-Political Profile - 192
Roberta T. Manning, Peasants and the Party: Rural Administration in the Soviet Countryside on the Eve of World War II - 224