Stalin: a new history

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Notes on contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
A note on transliteration......Page 12
Glossary......Page 13
1 Joseph Stalin: power and ideas......Page 17
2 Stalin as Georgian: the formative years......Page 34
3 Stalin as Commissar for Nationality Affairs, 1918–1922......Page 61
4 Stalin as General Secretary: the appointments process and the nature of Stalin's power......Page 79
The Central Committee Secretariat before Stalin......Page 81
The Secretariat under Stalin......Page 85
The Secretariat and the Lenin succession......Page 90
Conclusion......Page 96
5 Stalin as Prime Minister: power and the Politburo......Page 99
Normalising the Politburo......Page 102
Who decided what?......Page 110
Power and Stalin's government......Page 116
6 Stalin as dictator: the personalisation of power......Page 124
`The strong dictator': the consolidation of Stalin's dictatorship......Page 125
The dictator at work: Stalin in the system of decision-making......Page 128
The limits of the dictatorship......Page 132
Background......Page 137
Stalin's agricultural preoccupations, 1931–1936......Page 140
Stalin's agricultural decisions......Page 145
Conclusions......Page 153
8 Stalin as foreign policy-maker: avoiding war, 1927–1953......Page 156
Introduction......Page 175
Stalinism and Marxism......Page 176
Proletarian revolution in a backward country and 'revolution from above'......Page 180
Socialism in one country......Page 183
Proletarian dictatorship, class struggle, and the state......Page 184
'Soviet patriotism'......Page 187
Discussion......Page 194
10 Stalin as Bolshevik romantic: ideology and mobilisation, 1917–1939......Page 197
Politika versus tekhnika......Page 200
'Class struggle' and 'socialist construction'......Page 205
Class struggle' without the bourgeoisie......Page 209
Stalin – the supreme vospitatel'......Page 214
11 Stalin as patron of cinema: creating Soviet mass culture, 1932–1936......Page 218
Stalin's emergence as helper'......Page 220
Championing cinema's interests......Page 228
Creative help......Page 234
Conclusion......Page 238
12 Stalin as producer: the Moscow show trials and the construction of mortal threats......Page 242
13 Stalin as symbol: a case study of the personality cult and its construction......Page 265
14 Stalin as the coryphaeus of science: ideology and knowledge in the post-war years......Page 287
Index......Page 305