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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824946403321

Titolo

The lost Politburo transcripts : from collective rule to Stalin's dictatorship / / edited by Paul R. Gregory and Norman Naimark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-282-35214-8

9786612352140

0-300-15222-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 271 p.) : ill

Collana

The Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War

Altri autori (Persone)

GregoryPaul R

NaimarkNorman M

Disciplina

324.247/075

Soggetti

Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936 Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-257) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Findings and perspectives / Norman Naimark -- The Politburo's role as revealed by the lost transcripts / Paul Gregory -- Stalin in the light of the Politburo transcripts / Hiroaki Kuromiya -- "Class bothers unite!" the British general strike and the formation of the "united opposition" / Alexander Vatlin -- Stalin, Syrtsov, Lominadze : preparations for the "second great breakthrough" / Oleg Khlevniuk -- The "right opposition" and the "Smirnov-Eismont-Tolmachev affair" / Charters Wynn -- The way they talked then : the discourse of politics in the Soviet Party Politburo in the late 1920s / Robert Service -- Making the unthinkable thinkable : language microhistory of Politburo meetings / Leona Toker -- The short course of the history of the all-union Communist Party : the distorted mirror of party propaganda / Rustem Nureev -- Grain, class, and politics during NEP : the Politburo meeting of december 10, 1925 / R.W. Davies -- The Politburo on gold, industrialization, and the international economy, 1925-1926 / David M. Woodruff -- Prices in the Politburo, 1927 : market equilibrium versus the use of force / Mark Harrison.

Sommario/riassunto

Prominent Westen and Russian scholars examine the 'lost' transcripts of the Soviet Politburo, a set of verbatim accounts of meetings that took place from the 1920's to 1938 but remained hidden in secret archives



until the late 1990's.