Stanlinism

Although scholars have devoted much attention to the impact of technology on society, they have tended to slight the question of how technology is affected by social systems. The authors of this volume take precisely this approach in their examination of the "Soviet model" of development. Chapter 1 Grappling with Soviet Realities: Moshe Lewin and the Making of Social History, Roland Lew; Chapter 2 Demons and Devil's Advocates: Problems in Historical Writing on the Stalin Era, Vladimir Andrle; Chapter 3 Gorbachev's Socialism in Historical Perspective, R. W. Davies; Chapter 4 The Tsar, the Emperor, the Leader: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Anatolii Rybakov's Stalin, Maureen Perrie; Chapter 5 The Omnipresent Conspiracy: On Soviet Imagery of Politics and Social Relations in the 1930s, Gábor Tamás Rittersporn; Chapter 6 Soviet Peasants and Soviet Literature, Alec Nove; Chapter 7 Masters of the Shop Floor: Foremen and Soviet Industrialisation, Lewis H. Siegelbaum; Chapter 8 Upward Social Mobility and Mass Repression: The Communist Party and Soviet Society in the Thirties, Hans-Henning Schröder; Chapter 9 Construction Workers in the 1930s, Jean-Paul Depretto; Chapter 10 Nationality and Class in the Revolutions of 1917: A Re-examination of Social Categories, Ronald Grigor Suny; Chapter 11 The Background to Perestroika : ‘Political Undercurrents’ Reconsidered in the Light of Recent Events, Peter Kneen; Chapter 12 Legality in Soviet Political Culture: A Perspective on Gorbachev's Reforms, Peter H.SolomonJr.;