Stalinism: Its Nature and Aftermath: Essays in Honour of Moshe Lewin

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Grappling with Soviet Realities: Moshe Lewin and the Making of Social History....Pages 1-23
Demons and Devil’s Advocates: Problems in Historical Writing on the Stalin Era....Pages 25-47
Gorbachev’s Socialism in Historical Perspective....Pages 48-76
The Tsar, the Emperor, the Leader: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Anatolii Rybakov’s Stalin....Pages 77-100
The Omnipresent Conspiracy: On Soviet Imagery of Politics and Social Relations in the 1930s....Pages 101-120
Soviet Peasants and Soviet Literature....Pages 121-126
Masters of the Shop Floor: Foremen and Soviet Industrialisation....Pages 127-156
Upward Social Mobility and Mass Repression: The Communist Party and Soviet Society in the Thirties....Pages 157-183
Construction Workers in the 1930s....Pages 184-210
Nationality and Class in the Revolutions of 1917: A Re-examination of Social Categories....Pages 211-242
The Background to Perestroika: ‘Political Undercurrents’ Reconsidered in the Light of Recent Events....Pages 243-259
Legality in Soviet Political Culture: A Perspective on Gorbachev’s Reforms....Pages 260-287
Back Matter....Pages 288-291