Placing Stalinism in its international context, The Stalinist Era explains the origins and consequences of Soviet state intervention and violence.

Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrif

This book brings together for the first time a collection of essays by western scholars about women in the Stalin era (1928-53). It explores both the realities

This book provides a wide-ranging history of every aspect of Stalin's dictatorship over the peoples of the Soviet Union. Drawing upon a huge array of primary an

Up to now the culture of the Stalin period has been studied mainly from a political or ideological point of view. In this book renowned specialists from many co