Contending with Stalinism: Soviet Power and Popular Resistance in the 1930s

Lynne Viola (Editor)

0 ratings • 0 reviews • 1 shelved
Book cover for Contending with Stalinism

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

Resistance has become an important and controversial analytical category for the study of Stalinism. The opening of Soviet archives allows historians an unprecedented look at the fabric of state and society in the 1930s. Researchers long spellbound by myths of Russian fatalism and submission as well as by the very real powers of the Stalinist state are startled by the dimensions of popular resistance under Stalin.Narratives of such resistance are inherently interesting, yet the topic is also significant because it sheds light on its historical surroundings. Contending with Stalinism employs the idea of resistance as a tool to explore...

Read more
  • ISBN10 0801487749
  • ISBN13 9780801487743
  • Publish Date 16 July 2002
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Cornell University Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 256
  • Language English