Recovering Stalin's Russia / The rise of Stalin / Collectivization / Industrialization / Purges and politics / Foreign policy / War and late Stalinism / Culture and society / Conclusion: history and Stalin's Russia.
The ebb and flow of debate about Stalin's Russia is brilliantly captured in Chris Ward's account, which not only conceptualises the field in a clear and helpful way, offering a synthesis of the vast secondary literature in the area, but also provides the author's own evaluation of the key issues at stake.
Chris Ward, Lecturer in Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
..strongly recommended [students] will undoubtedly profit from reading Ward's views on this controversial subject and the purpose of academic history. Journal of European Studies ..a fresh and unhackneyed approach to a broadly familiar period. Slavonica a fresh unhackneyed approach to a broadly familiar period. Slavonica
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