The Stalin Era (Routledge Sources in History)

The Stalin Era (Routledge Sources in History)
by: Philip Boobbyer (Author)
Publisher: Routledge
Edition: 1st
Publication Date: 28 Sept. 2000
Language: English
Print Length: 270 pages
ISBN-10: 0415182972
ISBN-13: 9780415182973
Book Description
This book provides a wide-ranging history of every aspect of Stalin’s dictatorship over the peoples of the Soviet Union. Drawing upon a huge array of primary and secondary sources, The Stalin Era is a first-hand account of Stalinist thought, policy and and their effects. It places the man and his ideology into context both within pre-Revolutionary Russia, Lenin’s Soviet Union and post-Stalinist Russia. The Stalin Era examines: * collectivisation* industrialisation* terror* government* the Cult of Stalin* education and Science* family* religion: The Russian Orthodox Church* art and the state.

About the Author

About the Author Philip Boobbyer is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is author of S.L. Frank: the Life and Work of a Russian Philosopher, 1877–1950 (Ohio University Press, 1995).