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The Stalinist Era

By - Hoffmann David L.
Floor - Floor 4
Published - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2018
ISBN 10 - 0521188377
ISBN 13 - 9780521188371
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Politics and government
Shelf No - 3
Call Number - 947.0842 HOF
Physical Description - xiv, 202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Notes - Includes index
Book Information
Placing Stalinism in its international context, David L. Hoffmann presents a new interpretation of Soviet state intervention and violence. Many 'Stalinist' practices - the state-run economy, surveillance, propaganda campaigns, and the use of concentration camps - did not originate with Stalin or even in Russia, but were instead tools of governance that became widespread throughout Europe during the First World War. The Soviet system was formed at this moment of total war, and wartime practices of mobilization and state violence became building blocks of the new political order. Communist Party leaders in turn used these practices ruthlessly to pursue their ideological agenda of economic and social transformation. Synthesizing new research on Stalinist collectivization, industrialization, cultural affairs, gender roles, nationality policies, the Second World War, and the Cold War, Hoffmann provides a succinct account of this pivotal period in world history.

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