Stalin's Usable Past: A Critical Edition of the 1937 Short History of the USSR

by David Brandenberger

At the height of the Great Terror in 1937, Joseph Stalin took a break from the purges to edit a new textbook on the history of the USSR. Published shortly thereafter, the Short History of the USSR amounted to an ideological sea change. Stalin had literally rewritten Russo-Soviet History, breaking with two decades of Bolshevik propaganda that styled the 1917 Revolution as the start of a new era. In its place, he established a thousand-year...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503637867
• ISBN13: 9781503637863
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"