Sarah Davies – James Harris, eds. Stalin: A New History.

Contents

Preface

1 – Joseph Stalin: power and ideas / SARAH DAVIES – JAMES HARRIS

2 – Stalin as Georgian: the formative years / ALFRED J. RIEBER

3 – Stalin as Commissar for Nationality Affairs, 1918–1922 / JEREMY SMITH

4 – Stalin as General Secretary: the appointments process and the nature of Stalin’s power / JAMES HARRIS

5 – Stalin as Prime Minister: power and the Politburo / J. ARCH GETTY

6 – Stalin as dictator: the personalisation of power / OLEG V. KHLEVNIUK

7 – Stalin as economic policy-maker: Soviet agriculture, 1931–1936 / R. W. DAVIES

8 – Stalin as foreign policy-maker: avoiding war, 1927–1953 / ALFRED J. RIEBER

9 – Stalin as Marxist: the Western roots of Stalin’s russification of Marxism / ERIK VAN REE

10 – Stalin as Bolshevik romantic: ideology and mobilisation, 1917–1939 / DAVID PRIESTLAND

11 – Stalin as patron of cinema: creating Soviet mass culture, 1932–1936 / SARAH DAVIES

12 – Stalin as producer: the Moscow show trials and the construction of mortal threats / WILLIAM CHASE

13 – Stalin as symbol: a case study of the personality cult and its construction / DAVID BRANDENBERGER

14 – Stalin as the coryphaeus of science: ideology and knowledge in the post-war years / ETHAN POLLOCK