The Stalin Years : A Reader (Paperback)

Acknowledgements.- Foreword.- Glossary.- Stalin's Life and Times.- PART 1: MAIN CURRENTS OF INTERPRETATION OF STALIN AND THE STALIN YEARS.- During Stalin's Lifetime.- The Rise of Revisionism.- Perestroika and After.- PART 2: CULTURAL REVOLUTION.- Social Modernization-  The Modernization of Russian Motherhood 1917-37; E.Waters.- Towards the 'New Soviet Person': The Assault on Religion.- The 1929 Congress of the Godless; D.Peris.- PART 3: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND COLLECTIVIZATION.- The Drive to Industrialize.- Building the 'Soviet Detroit': The Construction of the Nizhnii Novgorod Automobile Factory, 1927-1932; K.Schulz.- The Assault on the Peasantry.-  Stalin, Grain Stocks and the Famine of 1932-1933; S.Wheatcroft, M.Tauger and R.W.Davies.- PART 4: THE GREAT TERROR.- Why Did the Terror Take Place?.-  The Objectives of the 'Great Terror'; O.Khlevnyuk.- The Purges in the Provinces.-  How the Mice Buried the Cat: Scenes from the Great Purges of 1937 in the Russian Provinces; S.Fitzpatrick.- PART 5: THE GREAT FATHERLAND WAR.- Soviet Women at War; J.Erickson.- PART 6: THE FINAL YEARS.- The Cold War.- Moscow and the Marshall Plan: Politics, Ideology and the Onset of the Cold War, 1947; G.Roberts.- Stalin's Dictatorship in the Final Years.-  Stalin's Cabinet: the Politburo and Decision Making in the Post-War Years; Y.Gorlizki.- PART 7: SOME REFLECTIONS ON STALINISM.- Stalinism as a Civilization.- Stalinism as a Civilization; S.Kotkin.- The Emerging Picture: Some Concluding Thoughts.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.