The Stalin Era by Philip Boobbyer (9780415182980)

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The Stalin Era provides a wide-ranging history of Stalin's dictatorship in the Soviet Union. Drawing upon a great range of primary sources, this book is an account of Stalinist thought and policy, and their effects. It also puts the Stalin regime into the context both of Lenin's period of rule and of the longer-term continuities of Russian history. Topics covered include: the rise of Stalin collectivisation industrialisation terror government the cult of Stalin the Second World War education and science the family the Russian Orthodox Church art and the state.

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