"During the Great Terror (1937 to 1938), at least 1.5 million Soviet citizens were arrested for alleged crimes against the state. Some 700,000 of them were shot. A dozen years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, still-classified Soviet archives reveal for the first time the scop…
In the years since Stalin's death, his influence upon the historical development of communism has remained elusive and in need of interpretation. In this landmark volume, leading scholars in the field discuss the impact of Stalinism.
"Stalin's Police offers a new interpretation of the mass repressions associated with the Stalinist terror of the late 1930s. This pioneering history traces the development of professional policing from its pre-revolutionary origins through the late 1930s and early 1940s, arguing…
Political scientists often ask themselves what might have been if history had unfolded differently: if Stalin had been ousted as General Party Secretary or if the United States had not dropped the bomb on Japan. Although scholars sometimes scoff at applying hypothetical reasonin…
Political scientists often ask themselves what might have been if history had unfolded differently: if Stalin had been ousted as General Party Secretary or if the United States had not dropped the bomb on Japan. Although scholars sometimes scoff at applying hypothetical reasonin…
Im New York der 1930er Jahre formierte sich eine Gruppe Intellektueller um die politisch orientierte Literaturzeitschrift Partisan Review. Dieser seit den späten 1960er Jahren mit dem Begriff »New Yorker Intellektuelle« bezeichnete Zirkel spaltete sich in den 1940er und 1950er J…
"The first study of the everydayness of political life under Stalin, this book examines Soviet citizenship through common practices of expressing Soviet identity in the public space. The Stalinist state understood citizenship as practice, with participation in a set of political…
