Politics, Society and Stalinism in the USSR

SARAH DAVIES Lecturer in History, University of Durham DONALD FILTZER Reader in European Studies, University of East London CATHERINE MERRIDALE Lecturer in European History, University of Bristol SILVIO PONS Lecturer in Contemporary History, Bari University, Italy E.A. REES Senior Lecturer in Soviet History, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham ROBERT SERVICE Professor of Russian History and Politics, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London STEPHEN WHITE Professor of Politics, University of Glasgow.

Notes on the Contributors Introduction; John Channon Joseph Stalin: The Making of a Stalinist: Robert Service Stalinism: The Primacy of Politics; E.A.Rees The Origins of the Stalinist State: Power and Politics in Moscow, 1928-32; Catherine Merridale Stalinism and Party Organization (1933-48); Silvio Pons The Leader Cult: Propaganda and Its Reception in Stalin's Russia; Sarah Davies Stalinism and the Graphic Arts; Stephen White Stalinism and the Working Class in the 1930s; Donald Filtzer Stalin and the Peasantry: Reassessing the Postwar Years, 1945-53; John Channon Index