The article analyses the different ideas, theories and views on Stalin's Great Terror. It outlines the different views, across the spectrum, around the politics, history and political economy of the purges and Stalinism. It considers Stalin's personal role in a process which was driven by ...
Soviet history books were rewritten to give him a more prominent role in the revolution and mythologize other aspects of his life. Stalin was the subject of flattering artwork, literature and music, and his name became part of the Soviet national anthem. He censored photographs in an attempt...
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Joseph Stalin dominated the Soviet Union as few leaders in human history have ever dominated polities. His control of the state was immense and often brutal. However, because of the intense secrecy of the Soviet Union and the cult of personality that was constructed around the Soviet leader, fo...
Joseph Stalin, as the second leader of the Soviet Union, tried to enforce militant atheism on the republic. The new “socialist man,” Stalin argued, was an atheist one, free of the religious chains that had helped to bind him to class oppression. From 1928 untilWorld War II, when some...
" "Great Architect of Communism," "Gardener of Human Happiness," and others), and helped rewrite Soviet history to provide himself a more significant role in the revolution. At the same time, according to Khrushchev, he insisted that he be remembered for "the extraordinary modesty ...
paradoxes of power, 1978-1928, by Stephen Kotkin, New York, Penguin Press, 2014, xviii + 949 pp., US$40.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-594-20379-4Through painstaking research and carefully crafted argument, Stephen Kotkin has offered groundbreaking approaches to interpreting Soviet history in his schola...
Stalin's era in Soviet history is one of the darkest. Nevertheless, despite numerous historical research, nonfiction and fiction, movies, and museum exhibi... K Molotov,D Khlevniuk - Communist & Post-Communist Studies 被引量: 0发表: 2024年 加载更多研究...
The Soviet propaganda machine conferred upon Stalin the title of “Father of Nations” and, equally modestly, “the sun that lights up the whole country.” Like God, he had to be worshipped every single day. Like the name of communism, ...