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200 10$aStalinism $eRussian and Western views at the turn of the millennium /$fAlter Litvin and John Keep
210  1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2005.
215   $a1 online resource (263 p.)
225 1 $aTotalitarian movements and political religions
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-415-35108-1 
311   $a0-415-35109-X 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [225]-238) and index.
327   $aBook Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; List of abbreviations; Coping with the legacy of Stalinism: recent Russian writing by; Sources; Stalin's biography; Assessing Stalin's role as leader; Terror; Foreign policy; Wrestling with revisionism: recent Western writing on Stalinism by; Old controversies, new approaches; 'A peculiar new state': politics and government; Adventures in social history: peasants and workers; 'It's a woman's world': gender studies and daily life; Captive minds: faith, science, history; 'Koba the Dread': repression and terror
327   $aNo longer a riddle? Aspects of Soviet foreign policyConclusions; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
330   $aStalinism surveys the efforts made in recent years by professional historians, in Russia and the West, to better understand what really went on in the USSR between 1929 and 1953, when the country's affairs were shrouded in secrecy. The opening of the Soviet archives in 1991 has led to a profusion of historical studies, whose strengths and weaknesses are assessed here impartially though not uncritically. While Joseph Stalin now emerges as a less omnipotent figure than he seemed to be at the time, most serious writers accept that the system over which he ruled was despotic and
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