Late Stalinist Russia

<p>The late Stalinist period long neglected by researchers more interested in the high-profile events of the 1930s has recently become the focus of much new research by people keen to understand the enormous impact of the war on Soviet society and to understand Soviet life under 'mature socialism'. Written by top scholars from high profile universities this impressive work brings together much new cutting edge research on a wide range of aspects of late Stalinist society. Filling a gap in the literature it focuses above all on the experience of the Soviet people and their interaction with ideology state policy and national and international politics.</p>