{"product_id":"revisioning-stalin-and-stalinism-9781350229334","title":"Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Ryan \u003c\/b\u003eis Senior Lecturer in Modern European (Russian) History at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLenin's Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), and his articles have appeared in journals such as \u003ci\u003eSlavic Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEurope-Asia Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHistorical Research\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003eSusan Grant \u003c\/b\u003eis Reader in Modern European History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is the author of \u003ci\u003ePhysical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society \u003c\/i\u003e(2013), and articles in journals such as the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Public Health\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMedical History\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Russia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis useful volume makes a small step toward filling in some of the blanks of a particularly obscure and gruesome period in human history. * The Russian Review *\u003cbr\u003eScholars of Stalinism will find much of value in this collection of articles.  Addressing topics from the Stalin cult to Red Army purges to the Cold War, the contributors add significantly to our understanding of this critical period in Soviet history. * David L. Hoffmann, Distinguished Professor of History, Ohio State University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis edited volume offers a remarkably stimulating and comprehensive discussion of Joseph Stalin’s style of political leadership. Without in any way playing down Stalin’s role as one of history’s great mass murderers, the cast of leading scholars in the field brought together in this volume focus on other elements of his leadership, such as his revolutionary motives and administrative qualities and effectiveness, thus helping us to acquire a more balanced reading of the dictator. * Erik van Ree, Research Associate of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism, \u003ci\u003eJames Ryan (Cardiff University, UK) and Susan Grant (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I. The Controversial Vozhd’: Stalin as Leader and Statesman \u003c\/b\u003e 1. The Many Lives of Joseph Stalin: Writing the Biography of a ‘Monster’, \u003ci\u003eChristopher Read (Warwick University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Stalin’s Purge of the Red Army and Misperception of Security Threats, \u003ci\u003ePeter Whitewood (York St. John University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Stalin and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939: The New Historiography, \u003ci\u003eDaniel Kowalsky (Queen's University Belfast, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Brute Force and Genius: Stalin as War Leader, \u003ci\u003eChris Bellamy (University of Greenwich, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II. Challenging Stalinist Models: Cults of Personality\u003c\/b\u003e 5. The Stalin Cult in Comparative Context, \u003ci\u003eJudith Devlin (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. From Heroic Lion to Streetfighter: Historical Legacies and the Leader Cult in 20th Century Hungary, \u003ci\u003eBalázs Apor (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III. New Ways of Understanding the Stalinist System: The Cold War\u003c\/b\u003e 7. Revisioning Stalin’s Cold War, \u003ci\u003eCaroline Kennedy-Pipe (Loughborough University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Working Towards the Vozhd’? Stalin and the Peace Movement, \u003ci\u003eGeoffrey Roberts (University College Cork, Ireland)\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Construction of a Confession: The Language and Psychology of Interrogations in Stalinist Czechoslovakia, \u003ci\u003eMolly Pucci (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart IV. In Lieu of an Epilogue\u003c\/b\u003e 10. Reckoning with the Past: Stalin and Stalinism in Putin’s Russia,\u003ci\u003e James Ryan (Cardiff University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e Select Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187289219415,"sku":"9781350229334","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/revisioning-stalin-and-stalinism-9781350229334","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}