The Stalin Era

by Philip Boobbyer

Book Overview

A wide ranging history of every aspect of Stalin's dictatorship over the peoples of the Soviet Union. It places the man and his ideology into context both within pre-Revolutionary Russia, Lenin's Soviet Union and post-Stalinist Russia.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415182972
• ISBN13: 9780415182973
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended-- a first-rate source book

This is an excellent contribution to the field of Russian studies. While it can surely stand alone as an enlightening and engaging compilation for the general reader with an interest in recent Russian and Soviet history, the book's principal applications (and one assumes marketability) likely lie elsewhere: as a key supplementary text for college courses on 20th century Russia and as a helpful mini-guide to the research in Stalin-era studies produced over the last decade. Prof. Boobbyer has done a fine job of identifying critical subject areas and selecting representative Stalin-era documents from them for discussion; of weaving a narrative of useful and illuminating introductions and postscripts to these documents, thus providing contexts in which readers can critically assess both the material at hand and the period overall; and of pointing us in useful directions for investigation beyond the confines of this survey. The compiling/editing/commenting hand at work is throughout both highly knowledgeable and commendably dispassionate, and the resulting volume is surely a credit to the Routledge Sources in History series. In sum, "The Stalin Era" renders an important, complex, and frightening period in Russian history considerably more accessible to a potentially large audience-- an audience it clearly deserves.Mark H. Teeter, Ph.D.Visiting Adjunct ProfessorDept. of History, Political Science and LawRussian State University for the Humanities [RGGU]Moscow