The Stalin Era

Description:

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 and secondary sources, The Stalin Era is a first-hand account of Stalinist thought, policy and their effects. It places the man and his ideology into context both within pre-Revolutionary Russia, Lenin's Soviet Union and post-Stalinist Russia. The Stalin Era examines: * Collectivisation* Industrialisation* Terror* Government* The Cult of Stalin* Education and Science* Family* Religion and The Russian Orthodox Church* Art and the state.

subjects: History,  Nonfiction,  Soviet union, history, 1917-1991,  Russia & the Former Soviet Union,  Politics and government

Places: Soviet Union

Times: 1925-1953