Perrie Maureen. The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 273 p. — ISBN-10: 0333656849; ISBN-13: 978-0333656846 — (Studies in Russian and East European History and Society).
Ivan IV, the 16th-century tsar notorious for his reign of terror, became an unlikely national hero in the Soviet Union during the 1940s. This book traces the development of Ivan's positive image, placing it in the context of Stalin's campaign for patriotism. In addition to historians' images of Ivan, the author examines literary and artistic representations, including Sergei Eisenstein's famous film Ivan the Terrible, banned for its depiction of the tsar which was interpreted as an allegorical criticism of Stalin.Prologue – Pre-Stalinization: Images of Ivan IV before 1934.
The Stalinization of Russian History.
History in the Service of Patriotism, 1934–45.
From Hitler’s accession to the Nazi–Soviet Pact, 1934–9.
The Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939–41.
The ‘Great Fatherland War’, 1941–5.
The ‘Tatar yoke’ and the threat from the East.
Three Case Studies in Historical Analogy.
Peter the Great.
Alexander Nevskii.
Minin and Pozharskii.
The Stalinization of Ivan the Terrible.
The First Steps, 1934–39.
Mikhail Bulgakov’s Ivan Vasil’evich.
The new history textbooks.
B. G. Verkhoven’.
Wartime and Postwar Historiography, 1940–53.
The official rehabilitation campaign.
The Livonian War.
The return of Vipper.
The Pokrovskyist revival.
The Zhdanovshchina.
Three Artistic Representations of Ivan.
V. I. Kostylev’s Novel.
Moscow on Campaign.
Volumes Two and Three.
A. N. Tolstoi’s Play.
The first version of the play (1941–2).
The two-part play of 1943–4.
Ivan Groznyi on the stage, 1944–6.
S. M. Eisenstein’s Film.
The initial stages, 1941–2.
The ‘literary screenplay’, 1943–4.
The film, 1944–7.
Epilogue – De-Stalinization: Images of Ivan IV since 1953.Chronology of Events in Pre-Revolutionary Russian History.