The Nature of Stalin's Dictatorship

R. W. DAVIES Emeritus Professor MELANIE ILIC Senior Lecturer in History and Women's Studies, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham OLEG KHLEVNYUK State Archives of the Russian Federation EVAN MAWDSLEY Professor of Modern History, University of Glasgow VALERY VASILIEV Researcher, Ukrainian Academy of Science DEREK WATSON Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham STEPHEN WHEATCROFT Professor of History, University of Melbourne, Australia

List of Tables Preface Notes on Contributors Glossary of Terms and Acronyms Introduction Stalin as Leader, 1924-1937: From Oligarch to Dictator; E.A.Rees An Elite within an Elite: Politburo/Presidium Membership Under Stalin, 1927-1953; E.Mawdsley From Team-Stalin to Degenerate Tyranny; S.G.Wheatcroft The Politburo and the Economic Policy-Making; R.W.Davies, M. Ilic & O.Khlevnyuk The Politburo and Foreign Policy in the 1930s; D.Watson The Ukrainian Politburo, 1934-1937; V.Vasiliev Stalin as Leader, 1937-1953: From Dictator to Despot; E.A.Rees Appendix 1: Changes in the Membership of the Politburo/Presidium 1927-1957 Appendix 2: The Fate of Members and Candidate Members of the Politburo, June 1924 - October 1952 Bibliography Name Index Subject Index