Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism : complexities, contradictions and controversies
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Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism : complexities, contradictions and controversies
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This thought-provoking collection of essays analyses the complex, multi-faceted, and even contradictory nature of Stalinism and its representations.
Stalinism was an extraordinarily repressive and violent political model, and yet it was led by ideologues committed to a vision of socialism and international harmony. The essays in this volume stress the complex, multi-faceted, and often contradictory nature of Stalin, Stalinism, and Stalinist-style leadership, and. explore the complex picture that emerges. Broadly speaking, three important areas of debate are examined, united by a focus on political leadership:
* The key controversies surrounding Stalin's leadership role
* A reconsideration of Stalin and the Cold War
* New perspectives on the cult of personality
Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism is a crucial volume for all students and scholars of Stalin's Russia and Cold War Europe.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism, James Ryan (Cardiff University, UK) and Susan Grant (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
Part I. The Controversial Vozhd': Stalin as Leader and Statesman
1. The Many Lives of Joseph Stalin: Writing the Biography of a 'Monster', Christopher Read (Warwick University, UK)
2. Stalin's Purge of the Red Army and Misperception of Security Threats, Peter Whitewood (York St. John University, UK)
3. Stalin and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939: The New Historiography, Daniel Kowalsky (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
4. Brute Force and Genius: Stalin as War Leader, Chris Bellamy (University of Greenwich, UK)
Part II. Challenging Stalinist Models: Cults of Personality
5. The Stalin Cult in Comparative Context, Judith Devlin (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
6. From Heroic Lion to Streetfighter: Historical Legacies and the Leader Cult in 20th Century Hungary, Balazs Apor (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Part III. New Ways of Understanding the Stalinist System: The Cold War
7. Revisioning Stalin's Cold War, Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Loughborough University, UK)
8. Working Towards the Vozhd'? Stalin and the Peace Movement, Geoffrey Roberts (University College Cork, Ireland)
9. Construction of a Confession: The Language and Psychology of Interrogations in Stalinist Czechoslovakia, Molly Pucci (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Part IV. In Lieu of an Epilogue
10. Reckoning with the Past: Stalin and Stalinism in Putin's Russia, James Ryan (Cardiff University, UK)
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