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Book Routledge Library Editions  Joseph Stalin

Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Joseph Stalin written by Routledge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published between 1952 and 1989 the 3 volumes in this set Utilize unpublished documents to build up a picture of Stalin with all his qualities and faults, crimes & achievements. Examine the change from revolutionism to nationalism which took place in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. Explore the way in which Stalin has been portrayed by Soviet, emigré Russian, and European writers including Orwell, Nabokov, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn

Book The Real Stalin

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  • Author : Yves Delbars
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-05-12
  • ISBN : 1351786660
  • Pages : 397 pages

Download or read book The Real Stalin written by Yves Delbars and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, originally published in English in 1953, the author, recognized as one of the best-informed experts on Eastern European politics, reconstructed during the course of a decade's work, the real history of Stalin, from his youth in Georgia to the last year of his life. Utilizing an enormous mass of largely unpublsihed documents he reconstructed a living Stalin with all his qualities and faults, crimes and achievements. He tells the secrets of Stalin's rise to power and of the extraordinary complexity and effectiveness of his tactics which can be seen in his attitude towards the problems of Marxist philosophy, in his attitude towards the German Question and his role as military commander.

Book Leninism

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  • Author : Joseph Stalin
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-04-21
  • ISBN : 1351791931
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Leninism written by Joseph Stalin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the Russian in 1928, this and the second volume of the same title give an invaluable picture of what the Russian leader Joseph Stalin understood by Leninism. Building on the pamphlet Foundations of Leninism, (which forms the first part of this book) the work presents a unified and complete work on the problems of Leninism and socialist construction as they were manifested in the 1920s, as well as discussion of the October Revolution and the relationship of the USSR and the West in the years following the First World War.

Book The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin

Download or read book The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin written by Erik van Ree and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-27 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the political thought of Joseph Stalin. Making full use of the documentation that has recently become available, including Stalin's private library with his handwritten margin notes, the book provides many insights on Stalin, and also on western and Russian Marxist intellectual traditions. Overall, the book argues that Stalin's political thought is not primarily indebted to the Russian autocratic tradition, but belongs to a tradition of revolutionary patriotism that stretches back through revolutionary Marxism to Jacobin thought in the French Revolution. It makes interesting comparisons between Stalin, Lenin, Bukharin and Trotsky, and explains a great deal about the mindset of those brought up in the Stalinist era, and about the era's many key problems, including the industrial revolution from above, socialist cultural policy, Soviet treatment of nationalities, pre-war and Cold War foreign policy, and the purges.

Book Routledge Library Editions  Vladimir Lenin

Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Vladimir Lenin written by Routledge and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 2270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published between 1926 and 1984, the 6 volumes in this set: Discuss the problems of Leninism and socialist construction, as well as the October Revolution and the relationship of the USSR and the West in the years following the First World War. Give an invaluable picture of what the Russian leader Joseph Stalin understood by Leninism. Provide illuminating study of the political thought and action of the Russian intelligentsia, in the decade up to and including the Revolution of 1905-6. Include the first biography of Lenin which tied together extensive material unearthed in WWII, explaining the complex personality and riddle of Lenin's seemingly impossible rise to power. Critique certain phases of revolutionary dictatorship in Russia. Reconsider the effect of Lenin on the politics and culture of the 20th Century. personality and riddle of Lenin's seemingly impossible rise to power. Critique certain phases of revolutionary dictatorship in Russia. Reconsider the effect of Lenin on the politics and culture of the 20th Century.

Book Images of Dictatorship

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  • Author : Rosalind Marsh
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-04-07
  • ISBN : 9781138703650
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Images of Dictatorship written by Rosalind Marsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1989, this book presented the first study of the image of Stalin in literature. Analysing the literary presentaiton of historical character and the treatment of 20th Century tyrants in European prose fiction, the book draws a comparison between the depiction of Hitler in German literature and Stalin in Russian literature. It explores the way in which Stalin has been portrayed by Soviet, emigr¿ussian, and European writers including Orwell, Nabokov, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. It examines in detail two important novels which had hitherto received little critical attention: the revised (1978) version of Sozhenitsyn's The First Circle and Anatoly Rybakov's Children of the Arbat. This book will be of interest to students of Soviet/Russian literature, history and politics and those intsted in the relationship between history and fiction in the 20th Century.

Book Stalin Versus Marx

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  • Author : Klaus Mehnert
  • Publisher : Routledge Library Editions: Joseph Stalin
  • Release : 2019-05-08
  • ISBN : 9781138719446
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book Stalin Versus Marx written by Klaus Mehnert and published by Routledge Library Editions: Joseph Stalin. This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1952, this book examines the change from revolutionism to nationalism which took place in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. It describes the course of this change, as shown by Stalin's decrees and writings, and discusses the Stalinist conception of Russian and world history, and its bearing on world revolution.

Book Images of Dictatorship  Routledge Library Editions  Joseph Stalin

Download or read book Images of Dictatorship Routledge Library Editions Joseph Stalin written by Rosalind Marsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1989, this book presented the first study of the image of Stalin in literature. Analysing the literary presentaiton of historical character and the treatment of 20th Century tyrants in European prose fiction, the book draws a comparison between the depiction of Hitler in German literature and Stalin in Russian literature. It explores the way in which Stalin has been portrayed by Soviet, emigré Russian, and European writers including Orwell, Nabokov, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. It examines in detail two important novels which had hitherto received little critical attention: the revised (1978) version of Sozhenitsyn's The First Circle and Anatoly Rybakov's Children of the Arbat. This book will be of interest to students of Soviet/Russian literature, history and politics and those intsted in the relationship between history and fiction in the 20th Century.

Book Leninism

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  • Author : Joseph Stalin
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-04-21
  • ISBN : 1351777815
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Leninism written by Joseph Stalin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the Russian in 1933, this and the first volume of the same title give an invaluable picture of what the Russian leader Joseph Stalin understood by Leninism. Building on the pamphlet Foundations of Leninism, (which forms the first part of this book) the work presents a unified and complete work on the problems of Leninism and socialist construction as they were manifested in the 1920s, as well as discussion of the October Revolution and the relationship of the USSR and the West in the years following the First World War.

Book Education in the Soviet Union

Download or read book Education in the Soviet Union written by Mervyn Matthews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive survey of the successes and failures of education and training in the Khrushchev and Breshnev years. The author gives an objective assessment of the accessibility of the main types of institution, of the contents of courses and of Soviet attempts to marry the functioning of their education system to their perceived economic and social needs. In addition the book has many useful and original features: For ease of analysis it summarises in diagram form complex statistics which are not usually brought together for so long a time period. It provides a systematic account of educational legislation; Matthews’ comparison of series of official decrees will allow subtle shifts in government policy to be accurately charted. Particular attention is also paid to a number of issues that are often neglected: the employment problems of school and college graduates; the role and professional status of teachers; political control and militarisation in schools; the close detail of higher education curricula; and the rate of student failure. Of special value is the chapter on those educational institutions which are often omitted from Western studies and which are hardly recognised as such in most official Soviet sources.

Book Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe

Download or read book Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe written by Fabio Giomi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s, neoliberals have openly contested the idea that the state should protect the socio-economic well-being of its citizens, making ‘privatization’ their mantra. Yet, as historians and social scientists have shown, welfare has always been a ‘mixed economy’, wherein private and public actors dynamically interacted, collaborating or competing with each other in the provision of welfare services. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners of welfare by developing three innovative approaches. Firstly, it illuminates the productive nature of public/private entanglements. Far from amounting to a zero-sum game, the interactions between the two sectors have changed over time what welfare encompasses, its contents and targets, often engendering the creation of new fields of intervention. Secondly, this book departs from a well-established tradition of comparison between Western nation-states by using and mixing various scales of analysis (local, national, international and global) and by covering case studies from Spain to Poland and France to Greece in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Thirdly, this book goes beyond state centrism in welfare studies by bringing back a host of public and private actors, from municipalities to international organizations, from older charities to modern NGOs. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Book Stalin and Stalinism

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  • Author : Martin McCauley
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2019-04-19
  • ISBN : 0429849761
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Stalin and Stalinism written by Martin McCauley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most successful dictators of the twentieth century, Stalin transformed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union into one of the world’s leading political parties. Stalin and Stalinism explores how he ammassed, retained and deployed power to dominate, not only his close associates, but the population of the Soviet Union and Soviet Empire. Moving from leader to autocrat and finally despot, Stalin played a key role in shaping the first half of the twentieth century with, at one time, around one-third of the planet adopting his system. His influence lives on – despite turning their backs on Stalin’s anti-capitalism in the later twentieth century, countries such as China and Vietnam retain his political model – the unbridled power of the Communist Party. First published in 1983, Stalin and Stalinism has established itself as one of the most popular textbooks for those who want to understand the Stalin phenomenon. This updated fourth edition draws on a wealth of new publications, and includes increased discussion on culture, religion and the new society that Stalin fashioned as well as more on spying, Stalin's legacy, and his character as well as his actions. Supported by a chronology of key events, Who’s Who and Guide to Further Reading, this concise assessment of one of the major figures of the twentieth-century world history remains an essential read for students of the subject.

Book Stalinism

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  • Author : Robert C. Tucker
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351488260
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Stalinism written by Robert C. Tucker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since Stalin's death, his profound influence upon the historical development of Communism has remained elusive and in need of interpretation. Stalinism, as his system has become known, is a phenomenon which embraced all facets of political and social life. While its effect upon the Soviet Union and other nations today is far less than it was while Stalin lived, it is by no means dead.In this landmark volume some of the world's foremost scholars of the subject, in a concerted group inquiry, present their interpretations of Stalinism and its influence on all areas of comparative Communist studies from history and politics to economics, sociology, and literary scholarship. The studies contained in this volume are an outgrowth of a conference on Stalinism held in Bellagio, Italy, sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies.In his major contribution to this book, Leszek Kolakowski calls Stalinism "a unified state organism facing atom-like individuals." This extraordinary volume, augmented by a revealing new introduction by the editor, Robert C. Tucker, can be seen as amplifying that remark nearly a half century after the death of Joseph Stalin himself.Contributors to this work are: Wlodzimierz Brus, Katerina Clark, Stephen F. Cohen, Alexander Erlich, Leszek Kolakowski, Moshe Lewin, Robert H. McNeal, Mihailo Markovic, Roy A. Medvedev, T. H. Rigby, Robert Sharlet, and H. Gordon Skilling. Robert C. Tucker's principle work on Stalin has been described by George F. Kennan as "the most significant single contribution made to date, anywhere, to the history of Soviet power."

Book Studies in Revolution

Download or read book Studies in Revolution written by Edward Hallett Carr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-06 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1962, is a collection of essays on the ideological origins of the European revolutionary movement. The first essay in the collection is devoted to Saint-Simon who, though not a revolutionary in the ordinary sense, was the begetter of the many ideas which became stock-in-trade of the nineteenth century revolutionaries. The essays that follow are on Marx and the Communist Manifesto, Proudhon, Herzen, Lassalle and Sorel; on the foundation and early history of the Russian Communist Party; on the histories of the British and German Communist Parties; and on Lenin and Stalin.

Book The Stalin Era

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  • Author : Philip Boobbyer
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012-11-12
  • ISBN : 1134739370
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book The Stalin Era written by Philip Boobbyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a wide-ranging history of every aspect of Stalin's dictatorship over the peoples of the Soviet Union. Drawing upon a huge array of primary and secondary sources, The Stalin Era is a first-hand account of Stalinist thought, policy and and their effects. It places the man and his ideology into context both within pre-Revolutionary Russia, Lenin's Soviet Union and post-Stalinist Russia. The Stalin Era examines: * collectivisation * industrialisation * terror * government * the Cult of Stalin * education and Science * family * religion: The Russian Orthodox Church * art and the state.

Book Education in the Soviet Union

Download or read book Education in the Soviet Union written by Mervyn Matthews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive survey of the successes and failures of education and training in the Khrushchev and Breshnev years. The author gives an objective assessment of the accessibility of the main types of institution, of the contents of courses and of Soviet attempts to marry the functioning of their education system to their perceived economic and social needs. In addition the book has many useful and original features: For ease of analysis it summarises in diagram form complex statistics which are not usually brought together for so long a time period. It provides a systematic account of educational legislation; Matthews' comparison of series of official decrees will allow subtle shifts in government policy to be accurately charted. Particular attention is also paid to a number of issues that are often neglected: the employment problems of school and college graduates; the role and professional status of teachers; political control and militarisation in schools; the close detail of higher education curricula; and the rate of student failure. Of special value is the chapter on those educational institutions which are often omitted from Western studies and which are hardly recognised as such in most official Soviet sources.

Book Lenin

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  • Author : Stefan T. Possony
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-04-21
  • ISBN : 1351793918
  • Pages : 492 pages

Download or read book Lenin written by Stefan T. Possony and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in the UK in 1966, this was the first biography of Lenin which tied together extensive material unearthed in WWII, and it illuminates the complex personality and explains the riddle of Lenin's seemingly impossible rise to power. Using primary sources such as previously inacessible documents from the German, Austrian and Japanese foreign offices, and the vast holdings of the Hoover Institution, the book cuts through many comtemporaneous myths in Communist sources. The volume is a landmark in the study of the birth of Soviet Communism and its revolutionary enterprise.