The Russian Revolution and Stalinism

Graeme Gill is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, Australia. A long-time scholar of Soviet and Russian politics, his latest book on this is entitled Collective Leadership in Soviet Politics (2018). He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Roger D. Markwick is Conjoint Professor of Modern European History at the University of Newcastle, Australia. With particular expertise in Soviet historiography and the role of Soviet women in the Second World War, his latest book is Everyday War: Exploring the Soviet Home Front, 1941–45, co-edited, in Russian (2019).

Introduction: Stalinism as State Building

Graeme Gill and Roger D. Markwick

1. The Pavlenko Construction Enterprise. Large-scale Private Entrepreneurialism in Stalin’s USSR

Oleg Khlevniuk

2. War, Violence and the Making of the Stalinist State: A Tillyian Analysis

Roger D. Markwick

3. Russian Views of Stalinism as a Negative Satellite of Capitalism

Roderic Pitty

4. The Rise and Fall of a Crimean Party Boss: Nikolai Vasil’evich Solov’ev and the Leningrad Affair

David Brandenberger, Alisa Amosova and Nikita Pivovarov

5. Was There a Soviet Nationality Policy?

Jeremy Smith

6. Stalinism and Executive Power: Formal and Informal Contours of Stalinism

Graeme Gill

7. Soviet Statistics under Stalinism: Reliability and Distortions in Grain and Population Statistics

Stephen G. Wheatcroft

8. Counting the Soviet Union’s War Dead: Still 26-27 Million

Mark Harrison

9. The Soviet Famine of 1931-1934: Genocide, a Result of Poor Harvests, or the Outcome of a Conflict Between the State and the Peasants?

Sergei Nefedov and Michael Ellman