Boobbyer Philip. The Stalin Era

London, New York: Routledge, 2000. - 273 p. In EnglishThe book provides a wide-ranging history of Stalin’s dictatorship in the Soviet Union. Drawing upon a great range of primary sources, this book is an account of Stalinist thought and policy, and their effects. It also puts the Stalin regime into the context both of Lenin’s period of rule and of the longer-term continuities of Russian history.Topics:the rise of Stalin
collectivisation
industrialisation
the terror
government
the cult of Stalin
the Second World War
education and science
the family
the Russian Orthodox Church
art and the state