LEADER 03410nam 2200721 a 450 001 996248109803316 005 20240410083057.0 010 $a0-511-12988-2 010 $a1-107-15387-5 010 $a9786610225675 010 $a1-280-22567-X 010 $a0-511-13024-4 010 $a0-511-20042-0 010 $a0-511-30082-4 010 $a0-511-61489-6 010 $a0-511-12921-1 024 3 $z9780521851046 (hbk.) 024 3 $z9780521616539 (pbk.) 035 $a(CKB)1000000000352501 035 $a(EBL)239206 035 $a(OCoLC)71816712 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000310207 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11244679 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000310207 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10286710 035 $a(PQKB)11611115 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511614897 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC239206 035 $a(dli)HEB05314 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000007294849 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000352501 100 $a20060310d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aStalin $ea new history /$fedited by Sarah Davies and James Harris 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, UK ;$aNew York $cCambridge University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (311 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-521-61653-0 311 $a0-521-85104-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; A note on transliteration; Glossary; 1 Joseph Stalin: power and ideas; 2 Stalin as Georgian: the formative years; 3 Stalin as Commissar for Nationality Affairs, 1918?1922; 4 Stalin as General Secretary: the appointments process and the nature of Stalin's power; 5 Stalin as Prime Minister: power and the Politburo; 6 Stalin as dictator: the personalisation of power; 7 Stalin as economic policy-maker: Soviet agriculture, 1931?1936; 8 Stalin as foreign policy-maker: avoiding war, 1927?1953 327 $a9 Stalin as Marxist: the Western roots of Stalin's russification of Marxism10 Stalin as Bolshevik romantic: ideology and mobilisation, 1917?1939; 11 Stalin as patron of cinema: creating Soviet mass culture, 1932?1936; 12 Stalin as producer: the Moscow show trials and the construction of mortal threats; 13 Stalin as symbol: a case study of the personality cult and its construction; 14 Stalin as the coryphaeus of science: ideology and knowledge i 330 $aThe figure of Joseph Stalin has always provoked heated and often polarized debate. In this groundbreaking study, leading international experts challenge many assumptions about Stalin from his early life in Georgia to the Cold War years, using recently declassified archive. 606 $aHeads of state$zSoviet Union$vBiography 607 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1917-1936 607 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1936-1953 607 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$y1925-1953 615 0$aHeads of state 676 $a947.0842092 701 $aDavies$b Sarah$g(Sarah Rosemary)$0845479 701 $aHarris$b James R.$f1964-$0845480 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248109803316 996 $aStalin$91887309 997 $aUNISA