Stalinist Dictatorship

Beschrijving

The ‘second revolution’ and its aftermath remodelled Soviet State and Bolshevik party, restructured institutions and reconstituted social relationships. Presiding over these changes was Joseph Stalin, one of the disturbing figures. This book looks at the regime from three different perspectives. It focuses on interpretations of Stalin’s character.

From the late 1920s onwards, forced collectivisation, state-directed industrialisation, mass purging and the party’s control of culture, refashioned Russia and gave birth to a new type of society. The ‘second revolution’ and its aftermath remodelled the Soviet State and the Bolshevik party, restructured all institutions and reconstituted all social relationships. Millions found their lives changed forever. Nothing was untouched and no one was unaffected. Presiding over these momentous changes was Joseph Stalin, one of the twentieth century’s most disturbing figures. \