Stalinism is a controversial new addition to the current debates related to the history of the Stalinist period of the Soviet Union. Sheila Fitzpatrick has collected together not only the classics of the revisionist period including Moshe Lewin, but also new work by young Russian, American and European scholars, in an attempt to reassess this contentious and deeply-politicised subject.
The articles are contextualised by a thorough introduction to the totalitarian/revisionist arguments. Eschewing an exclusive high political focus, the book draws together work on class, identity, gender, work and agency. Stalinism offers a nuanced navigation of an emotive and misrepresented chapter of the Russian past.
Books in Series:
Atlantic American Societies
Diversity and Unity in Early North America
The French Revolution
Gender and American History Since 1890
The Israel/Palestein Question
Nazism and German Society 1933-1945
The Origins of the Cold War
Reformation to Revolution
The Revolutions of 1989
Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa
Society and Culture in the Slave South
Stalinism
Forthcoming: Global Feminisms
The Chinese Revolution