The Stalinist era
by Hoffmann, David L., (David Lloyd)
"Placing Stalinism in its international context, David L. Hoffmann presents a new interpretation of Soviet state intervention and violence. Many 'Stalinist' practices - the state-run economy, surveillance, propaganda campaigns, and the use of concentration camps - did not originate with Stalin or even in Russia, but were instead tools of governance that became widespread throughout Europe during the First World War. The Soviet system was formed at this moment of total war, and wartime practices…
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- Full title :The Stalinist era / David L. Hoffmann.
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"Placing Stalinism in its international context, David L. Hoffmann presents a new interpretation of Soviet state intervention and violence. Many 'Stalinist' practices - the state-run economy, surveillance, propaganda campaigns, and the use of concentration camps - did not originate with Stalin or even in Russia, but were instead tools of governance that became widespread throughout Europe during the First World War. The Soviet system was formed at this moment of total war, and wartime practices of mobilization and state violence became building blocks of the new political order. Communist Party leaders in turn used these practices ruthlessly to pursue their ideological agenda of economic and social transformation. Synthesizing new research on Stalinist collectivization, industrialization, cultural affairs, gender roles, nationality policies, the Second World War, and the Cold War, Hoffmann provides a succinct account of this pivotal period in world history." -- Publisher's description
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- Publication Date:2018.
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- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2018.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiv, 202 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781107007086, 1107007089, 9780521188371, 0521188377
- oclc:on1037621858
- LC Classification:DK267
- Dewey Decimal:947.084/2
Table of Contents
Prelude to Stalinism -- Building socialism (1928-33) -- Socialism attained (1934-38) -- World War II (1939-45) -- The postwar years (1946-53).
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