The Origins of the Stalinist Political System

by Graeme J. Gill

Book Overview

The Origins of the Stalinist Political System offers new and challenging perspectives on Soviet political development from October 1917 until the outbreak of war in June 1941. Explanations of the emergence of a Stalinist political system have hitherto concentrated upon either impersonal factors, such as economic backwardness and the process of bureaucratisation, or Stalin the political actor and the intricacies of elite conflict. Graeme Gill examines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521529360
• ISBN13: 9780521529365
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"