"On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written i…
Introduction: Policing, social order, and repression under Stalin -- A new kind of class war -- Police and social disorder -- A Soviet gendarmerie -- Informants, surveillance, and prophylactic policing -- Cataloging the population -- The campaigns against marginals -- Policing j…
"This is one of the first books to emphasize the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. Based on extensive examination of new archival materials David R. Shearer finds that mo…
The Soviets are often viewed as insatiable industrialists who saw nature as a force to be tamed and exploited. Song of the Forest counters this assumption, uncovering significant evidence of Soviet conservation efforts in forestry, particularly under Josef Stalin. In his compell…
On pp. 786-788 and pp. 802-807 (entitled "Official Anti-Semitism"), summarizes Stalin's postwar antisemitic policy as part of his increasing chauvinism and his cult of the Russian nation. Mentions the annihilation of well-known Jewish intellectuals and writers who belonged to th…
Preparing for war -- The war begins in the East, 1937-39 -- War in the West, 1939-40 -- Armageddon, 1941-42 -- Recovery, 1941-42 -- Triumph, 1943-45 -- War of ideologies -- The war after the war, 1944-49 -- Impact and aftermath. "Stalinism at War tells the epic story of the Sov…
"The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was an organization created by the Soviet authorities as a tool of Soviet war propaganda. However, the committee gradually assumed a Jewish identity and served as a focus for Jewish problems and concerns. Soviet Government, Party and Security b…
"The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was an organization created by the Soviet authorities as a tool of Soviet war propaganda. However, the committee gradually assumed a Jewish identity and served as a focus for Jewish problems and concerns. Soviet Government, Party and Security b…