Stalinism: The Essential Readings

Acknowledgments ix

Glossary xi

Introduction: Interpretations of Stalinism 1
David L. Hoffmann

Part I The Origins of Stalinism 9

1 Stalin's Role 11
Stalin and his Stalinism: Power and Authority in the Soviet Union, 1930–1953 13
Ronald Grigor Suny

2 Social Origins 37
Grappling with Stalinism 39
Moshe Lewin

3 Socialist Ideology 63
The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia 65
Martin Malia

4 The Foreign Threat 81
The Objectives of the Great Terror, 1937–1938 83
Oleg Khlevnyuk

5 The Welfare State 105
Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization 107
Stephen Kotkin

6 State Violence 127
State Violence as Technique: The Logic of Violence in Soviet Totalitarianism 129
Peter Holquist

Part II The Consequences of Stalinism 157

7 Resistance and Conformity 159
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times 161
Sheila Fitzpatrick

8 Stalinist Subjectivity 179
Working, Struggling, Becoming: Stalin-Era Autobiographical Texts 181
Jochen Hellbeck

9 Women and Gender 211
Women in Soviet Society: Equality, Development, and Social Change 213
Gail Warshofsky Lapidus

10 Ethnicity and Nationality 237
Nature and Nurture in a Socialist Utopia: Delineating the Soviet Socio-Ethnic Body in the Age of Socialism 239
Amir Weiner

11 The Postwar Years 275
Russia after the War: Hopes, Illusions, and Disappointments 277
Elena Zubkova

Index 302