The ebb and flow of debate about Stalin's Russia is captured in this account, which conceptualizes the field clearly, offering a synthesis of the secondary literature in the area, and also providing the author's own evaluation of the key issues. This edition takes into account the new opportunities afforded to historians - both Russian and Western - by the collapse of communism and the greater availability to researchers of archival sources. It acknowledges the various problems and perspectives in interpretation that have emerged since the end of the Soviet Union, and now includes a chapter on Stalin's foreign policy.
- ISBN10 0340731508
- ISBN13 9780340731505
- Publish Date 30 September 1999 (first published 17 June 1993)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 26 February 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Hodder Arnold
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English