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In this unique book, we hear the poignant voices of those who experienced firsthand the 1930s in the Soviet Union. The book's 157 documents, selected from newly opened Soviet archives, include primarily letters from ordinary citizens to authorities but also various official reports and correspondence. The documents illuminate in new ways the complex social roots of Stalinism and the texture of daily life during a highly traumatic decade."Maybe some people are shy about writing, but I will write the real truth. . . . Is it really possible that people at the newspaper haven't heard this. . . that we don't want to be on the kolkhoz [collective farm], we work and work, and there's nothing to eat. Really, how can we live?"-A farmer's letter, 1936, from Stalinism as a Way of Life. Annals of Communism series
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Chilling dig into the archives reveals the horrors of Soviet life.......2007-07-07
Thanks to careful digging through some of the many archives in Moscow, Siegelbaum and Sokolov have produced a minor masterpiece. They selected 157 documents (many of them letters, but some secret reports) showing the devastation wrought on the lives of Soviet citizens during the 1930s. Reading through these often heartbreaking pleas, denunciations and complaints gives you an idea of the damage done to people by Stalin's decisions to rip apart the agricultural system, focus blindly on industrialisation while purging millions of allegedly unreliable elements.
As the authors say: "In reading the documents, one cannot help but be astonished at how skilfully the country's leadership created hardships and problems for its citizens, only to solve them with considerably less success." Tens of millions starved while others walked around in bare feet or attended wretched schools because all elements of society were in total chaos. What also comes through clearly is that the quickest thinkers usually did best, for they had the foresight to loudly pledge allegiance to the Communist system while the majority of the population struggled to work out what was happening.
And if you take the documents here at face value, those Communist bosses were often total incompetents, more keen to curry favour with Moscow and steal what they could for family and friends rather than doing their jobs. When you finish this remarkly depressing work you do wonder quite how anything ever got done in the Soviet Union and you also marvel at how much potential the country squandered.
Stalinism as it really was.......2001-11-15
Stalinism as a Way of Life is collection of first hand accounts of the people who actually lived in Stalin's Russia. This book is wonderful if you are interested in the everyday life of the Russian people. Warning, if you get sick of everyone complaining because they have no shoes then this book is not for you. If you are more interested in the political aspects of the politburo then Getty's Road to Terror is better for you.
Heeding the past.......2001-05-19
Siegelbaum has performed a valuable historical service by compiling these letters. Americans, and perhaps other Westerners, would do well to pay heed to what man wrought in that era, and its implications for our politically correct society of today. The outpourings of the hearts of Soviet citizens who were led to believe they were building the society of the future will, at times, make you want to cry. The responses from some of the Soviet leaders to their pleas make the blood run cold.
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One of the most successful and lethal dictators of the twentieth century, Stalin transformed the Soviet Union into a modern industrial state. While he demonstrated Russia's huge potential if harnessed correctly, Stalin's brand of coercive socialism sent millions to their deaths in the process. Updated to incorporate the most recent research the new edition in the Seminar Studies in History Series provides an accessible and important introduction to the Stalin phenomenon. Written by Martin McCauley, a leading authority on Russia and Eastern Europe, this new third edition includes a completely new chapter, Stalin: Personality and Power, which provides additional information about the man himself The author brings this best selling volume completely up-to-date, with existing chapters revised to include the latest information and debates. Additional documents have been added which graphically demonstrate the massive cost of the Stalin dictatorship to Soviet citizens For readers interested in the history of the Soviet Union
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Awful.......2006-11-22
It is near-impossible to describe the sickly feeling one gets from reading this book, but I will try.
Consider the following plain facts about Joseph Stalin, facts not even disputed by those who even now still hold a flickering torch for him:
1. In quantitative terms, a greater murderer than Hitler;
2. The GULAG: a brutal, high-mortality prison camp and slave labour system into which one could be thrown for the most trivial crime - e.g., the deaf and dumb carpenter who got ten years for hanging his coat on a bust of Lenin, (See Solzhenitsyn, Vol II, p. 294);
3. The Great Terror: show trials beginning in 1937 which led to the purging of his own party members, nationwide repression, arbitrary imprisonment and killings (number of executions ran into six digits);
5. Ruthless Cold War antagonist, swallowing and subjugating all of eastern Europe;
6. The Holodomor: the 1930s state-orchestrated Ukrainian Terror-famine which alone claimed over five million lives;
7. The Hitler-Stalin pact;
8. Murderer of Trotsky (ice pick to the head); slayer of Tukachevsky (blood bespattered the pages of his confession); killer of Vsevolod Meyerhold's wife Zinaida (her eyes gouged out by the secret police, seventeen stab wounds).
And then consider the following choice quotes from Mr. McCaulay's scholary tract on this era (my comments added):
1. "Who would seize Lenin's mantle and steer the ship of state back towards socialism? It turned out to be Stalin. Beginning in 1929 he launched a violent, phenomenally ambitious economic modernisation of the country.
[The debut of this 'modernisation' plan was the White Sea - Baltic canal, built almost entirely by manual labour: trees were felled without axes or saws; boulders were excavated by men dragging on nets, occasional use was made of cranes, which were wooden. Estimated death toll in the first three months alone: 100,000. (See Solzhenitsyn, Vol II, p. 98)]
Forced industrialisation and forced collectivisation transformed the country.
[As documented in Robert Conquest's books, the 'transformation' of the agricultural sector reduced the citizens of the Ukraine to cannibalism and Conquest is quoted as stating that 'about twenty human lives were lost for, not every word, but every letter in this book'. The book runs to 411 pages. (Quoted in Amis, Koba the Dread, p. 3)]
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There was logic in this seeming madness. Only when Russia was the strongest state in the world could it feel secure.
[Would this same 'logic' apply to say, Malta?]
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All the efforts and sacrifices turned out to be worth while." (p. 6)
[No comment, just stunned silence.]
2. "Calling Stalinism a civilisation is a bold move and reveals how far Soviet studies have come since the heyday of the totalitarian school. The great warhorses of that era would turn in their graves at the suggestion that Stalinism was a new civilisation. One reason for taking a more relaxed attitude to Stalinism and chronicling its successes (whatever one thinks about the goals and the methods deployed) is that no one fears Stalinism anymore. It has failed everywhere except perhaps in North Korea." (p. 11)
[Yes, indeed: the 'Stalinist' sense is about the only one in which the North Korean slave state could be considered a 'success'. And oh, the irritating pedantry of those Stalin-skeptics who keep bringing up the twenty million dead! Incidentally, I look forward to reading about the more 'relaxed attitude' that might be taken to analysing, say, Stalin's April 1935 decision to subject children as young as twelve to capital punishment. (See Solzhenitsyn, Vol II, p. 449)]
All of the quotes are from just the *first chapter*. Which also features the breezy assertion that "Despite the exploitation and the terror, people still thought that they were building socialism, guided by the wise father of the nation, Stalin" (p. 12); the jaw-dropping claim (repeated throughout the book) that Stalinism was "born of the Enlightenment" (p. 11) and the concept of "Russia's addiction to socialism" (p. 7) - presumably the tens of thousands of miners dying in the Kolyma were 'addicted' to propping up the slave state that was beating them down?
There is, is there not, something of a tonal contrast between the salient facts of the Stalin era and the manner in which they are rendered by Mr. McCauley? Or should that be ... avoided by Mr. McCauley?
Under 'G' in the index there is no entry for 'GULAG'. Similarly, the reader will look in vain under 'S' for any mention of the names Solzhenitsyn or Shalamov. (The same goes for the 'References' section and the 'Guide to Further Reading'. Robert Conquest is mentioned grudgingly and hurriedly.) Could one imagine reading a volume on Hitler that made *no reference* to the Nazi Holocaust? Or studiously avoided citing any of its chief chroniclers? Enough said? Not quite.
Suffused with the sublimated impatience that Stalinism somehow inexplicably wound up getting a bum rap from historians, this is, quite simply, a volume of astounding political and historical ignorance. Not even the most blinkered apparatchik could have written a tract as morbidly asinine as this. Beneath the weasel-wording, one can sense at every turn the song of praise to Uncle Joe trying to burst through a lake of anguished evasions. To have to trawl through this book was a morally disgusting experience. And remember: this is the *third* edition: it is as though Mr. McCauley has lived for years in a parallel universe in which all of the dreadful revelations about life in the USSR never saw the light of day. Hands pressed tightly against his ears, he simply ploughs through his argument as though the millions of lives devoured by Stalin's unspeakable cruelty were all an accident of some otherwise well-intentioned plan. It was all a misunderstanding ... and like all good apparatchiks, Mr. McCauley implies throughout that the misunderstanding belonged to the *critics* of Stalinism.
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Literary Exorcisms of Stalinism: Russian Writers and the Soviet Past
Margaret Ziolkowski
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This work explores the cultural implications of prominent images in Russian thought and literature devoted to the Stalin era since the dictator's death in 1953. Author of the works discussed include some of the most important Russian writers of the past four decades: Solzhenitsyn, Vasilii Grossman, Vladimir Voinovich, Anatolii Rybackov among others.
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Stalin and Stalinism (Lancaster Pamphlets)
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Joseph Stalin's twenty-five year dictatorship is without doubt one of the most controversial periods in the history of the Soviet Union. Stalin and Stalinism examines Stalin's ambiguous personal and political legacy, his achievements, and his crimes - all now the subject of major reappraisal both in the West and in the former Soviet Union.
The second edition of this best-selling work is fully updated to take in new historical debates and historiographical controversies which have emerged since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and reflects on the ways in which Stalin's legacy still affects attitudes in and towards post-Soviet Russia.
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Stalinism and After: The Road to Gorbachev
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This book traces the origins of Stalinism, analyzes its nature and achievements, examines the process of de-Stalinization that followed Stalin.s death, and explores the evolution of the Soviet system from Khrushchev to Gorbachev.
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This wide-ranging cultural history explores the expression of Bolshevik Party ideology through the lens of landscape, or, more broadly, space. Portrayed in visual images and words, the landscape played a vital role in expressing and promoting ideology in the former Soviet Union during the Stalin years, especially in the 1930s. At the time, the iconoclasm of the immediate postrevolutionary years had given way to nation building and a conscious attempt to create a new Soviet "culture." In painting, architecture, literature, cinema, and song, images of landscape were enlisted to help mold the masses into joyful, hardworking citizens of a state with a radiant, utopian future -- all under the fatherly guidance of Joseph Stalin.
From backgrounds in history, art history, literary studies, and philosophy, the contributors show how Soviet space was sanctified, coded, and "sold" as an ideological product. They explore the ways in which producers of various art forms used space to express what Katerina Clark calls "a cartography of power" -- an organization of the entire country into "a hierarchy of spheres of relative sacredness," with Moscow at the center. The theme of center versus periphery figures prominently in many of the essays, and the periphery is shown often to be paradoxically central.
Examining representations of space in objects as diverse as postage stamps, a hikers' magazine, advertisements, and the Soviet musical, the authors show how cultural producers attempted to naturalize ideological space, to make it an unquestioned part of the worldview. Whether focusing on the new or the centuries-old, whether exploring a built cityscape, a film documentary, or the painting Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin, the authors offer a consistently fascinating journey through the landscape of the Soviet ideological imagination.
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This weighty--physically and emotionally--book speaks volumes about the play of individual and group memory in a totalitarian society. It grew from notebooks and files secretly kept by the Russian historian Roy Medvedev on the history of his times, from the emergence of Josef Stalin as a leader in the 1917 Revolution to the dictator's death in 1953. Some of the documents Medvedev gathered, including memoranda on secret agreements with Nazi Germany, shocked Russian readers when these notebooks first began to appear in 1988, and his book became one of the primary documents of glasnost.
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The most comprehensive and revealing investigation of Stalinism and political developments in the Soviet Union from 1922-1953, this edition is an extensively revised and expanded version of a classic work. Internationally known historian Roy Medvedev has included more than one-hundred new interviews, unpublished memoirs, and archives from survivors of Stalin's death camps. This updated version of a classic work was written during a time of great change in the Soviet Union. With the advent of perestroika and glasnost, more progressive leadership has sought to demolish the Stalinist system which had finally crippled the Soviet Union and incited public discontent.
Let History Judge contains new material on: purges in 1929-1931 and terror against the peasantry, the Kirov assasination and show trials, the "great terror" from 1936-1938 which caused irreparable damage to the Soviet Union and left it vulnerable for Hilter's attack in 1941, the trial of Bukharin, Trotsky's revolutionary activity and Stalin's involvement with his murder in Mexico, Stalin's miscalculations and errors during the war which cost the Soviet Union nearly 25 million in casualties, new purges from 1946-1953, and the actual vote of the Seventeenth Congress, which decided Stalin's candidacy.
Since the first edition was finished by the author in 1969 and published in 1971, dozens of new informants have come forward to give their evidence to Roy Medvedev. Distinguished Soviet literary, cultural, and political figures like the late Alexander Twardovsky, Ilja Ehrenburg, Konstantin Simonov, Yuri Trifono, Mikhail Romm and many others have accumulated documentary records of Stalinism in anticipation of an expanded version.
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an historical gem that passed unnoticed.......2005-09-02
The original version of this book, published in 1972 by Alfred A Knopf, reflects the thinking of historian Roy A Medvedev in the period of August 1962 to August 1968. The revised and expanded 1989 version must first be examined in light of the original.
The original was translated by Colleen Taylor and edited by David Joravsky of Northwestern University. Medvedev couldn't get published in the USSR, and this work thus first appeared in the West. It was written primarily during the transition from Khrushev's anti-Stalinist reforms to Brezhnev's immanent social-imperialism.
August 1968 is also the month of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslavakia and the defeat of Dubcek's "socialism with a human face." This is also the period of Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
Stalin was as evil as Hitler, yet he rose to power in the first Socialist state. The Second World War played itself out as one totalitarian dictatorship in a death struggle with another, yet Stalin ended up through the course of events as an ally of the democratic and capitalist Anglo-American West in its life-or-death struggle against fascism.
Totalitarianism turns out to have been the big infatuation of the twentieth century intelligentsia. Medvedev represents Russia's awakening from this plague. He is wrong about so much, yet for his age he was so far ahead of his times.
This book is a classic, and I believe the original should be the preferred version. Stalin's terror is nearly beyond belief. It is tragic in a way that Nazism could never be.
If Leninism ever revives, this will be a classic, just as it is now in the wake of the Cold War defeat of Communism.
As definitive as a person could possibly desire........2001-05-14
The late 1990's saw the publication of numerous scatterbrained, and ill-intentioned, attempts to descredit Vladimir Lenin, Nikolai Bukharin, Leon Trotsky, and Karl Marx, by associating their actions, and ideas, with those of Joseph Stalin. One must ask, "were these attempts in any way successful?" Luckily, the answer is an emphatic, no. The individuals who bought into the "Marx and Lenin created Stalinism" theory, alluded to in works such as 'The Black Book of Communism', by Mister Courtois (or Miss), 'The Passing of an Illusion', by Mister Furet, and 'The Soviet Tragedy', by Mister Malia, already harbored such fantastic illusions. Most of the population has no interest in Sovietology, so attempts at descrediting Lenin, Marx, Bukharin, and Trotsky, were, and are, virtually fruitless (I took a Public Speaking course at a local community college, and most of the students hadn't even heard of Lenin, Marx, or Trotsky!.)
To find true objectivity, on the subject of Sovietology, one must reach back into the distant past, and read Roy Medvedev's incredible, 'Let History Judge'. One could refer to Medvedev's writings, as "Solzhenitsyn, without the racism and bitterness"(a spew of biographies show that Solzhenitsyn is without question anti-semitic; however, this fact doesn't mean he's no longer one of the elite writers of the twentieth century). 'Let History Judge', is not so much a history of Stalin, but a history of Russia from 1917-1953. Described, with minute detail, is Lenin's seizure of power, Lenin's benevolent feelings toward Stalin (which ended effectively after the Eleventh All-Congress of the Bolsheviks), Trotsky's role as leader of the Red Army, Trotsky's complete ineptness in regard to the left-opposition, and Stalin's remarkable, almost super-human, political abilites. In addition, one will never discover a finer description of collectivization anywhere (although I must admit Conquest's 'Harvest of Sorrow', is pretty excellent). Russia's grain production in 1930-1933, were almost certainly below pre-WWI levels, apparently, but Stalin wanted Russia to appear forceful, so he sold grain internationally, as if it were "business as usual", which resulted in the death of millions of non-guilty peasants (however, one can not deny George Carlin's classic quote, "there are no innocent people, once you're born, you're guilty as charged").The description of the horrible Gulag system is not quite as great as Solzhenitsyn's, but it's pretty darn close. Unlike Solzhenitsyn, Medvedev doesn't slander the dead, or embark on anti-semitic diatribes (thankfully, for the population at large, Medvedev critiques much of what Solzhenitsyn wrote in the 'Gulag Archipelago' with absolute clarity).
The price is pretty high, but at 800+ pages, the person isn't really buying just one book, they are buying a multitude of books, which cover a variety of subjects. In addition to, 'Let History Judge', I would also strongly recommend you read Edvard Radzinsky's 'Stalin', Volkogonov's 'Autopsy of an Empire' (being a Yeltsin staffer, Volkogonov is biased, but there is some interesting anecdotes!), and Robert Tucker's magnificent two-volume biograpy of Stalin. Unlike other works on the subject of the Russian Revolution, these works actually take a "scholarly" approach!
Passion overwhelms the writing.......2000-12-24
This book was the first in the Soviet Union to treat Stalin in an objective way. Prior to its release Stalin had been the great hero of the patriotic war the father of the country and so forth. Whilst the secret speech by Krushev had distanced the country from his system scholarship had not taken the step of subjecting his rule to objective analysis.
The author was a person who was an opponent of Stalin and prior to the fall of the regime was active in its criticism. The book goes through the issues associated with Stalin such as the decision to collectivize agriculture, the forced industrialization, the terror and the handling of the war. The author forms the view that Stalin was an unmitigated disaster. That is the country would have progressed economically better without him, and his handling of the war was catastrophic.
It is a good book to read with other western accounts such as Bullocks.
Comprehensive and interesting.......2000-05-23
This book is a very thorough and well-written biography of Josef Stalin. It was one of the few books I read in college that I didn't mind reading. The information on Stalin's political and personal life gives the reader an opportunity to make informed judgements about Stalin's actions.
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On Stalin and Stalinism
Ro-I Aleksandrovich Medvedev
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On Stalin and Stalinism.......2000-01-10
ASIN -0192158422 Anybody can receive this book within a week or two. On Stalin and Stalinism is a book that I strongly recommend for anyone that is interested about the Russian Revolution and the conflicts it brought over who would have the most power between the key leaders including Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin. Medvedev examined first-hand stories from survivers of the Stalin Era, secret letters sent amongst government officials, and personal quotations that provided an insight to who these Soviet leaders were really like. The majority of the book was spent on the reasons why Stalin inflicted torture on innocent people. Their was never a boring part in the book but instead it kept me wanting to read more. Anybody who reads this book will gain an enormous amount of information about behind the scenes of the Communist Party. Instead of having his own opinion throughout the book, Medvedev was able to have a range of materials at his disposal since he is a Soviet author. If any student has to do a report on Stalin or is just in a mood to read a remarkable book then On Stalin and Stalinism is they novel for you.
On Stalin and Stalinism.......2000-01-10
Anybody can receive this book within a week or two. On Stalin and Stalinism is a book that I strongly recommend for anyone that is interested about the Russian Revolution and the conflicts it brought over who would have the most power between the key leaders including Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin. Medvedev examined first-hand stories from survivers of the Stalin Era, secret letters sent amongst government officials, and personal quotations that provided an insight to who these Soviet leaders were really like. The majority of the book was spent on the reasons why Stalin inflicted torture on innocent people. Their was never a boring part in the book but instead it kept me wanting to read more. Anybody who reads this book will gain an enormous amount of information about behind the scenes of the Communist Party. Instead of having his own opinion throughout the book, Medvedev was able to have a range of materials at his disposal since he is a Soviet author. If any student has to do a report on Stalin or is just in a mood to read a remarkable book then On Stalin and Stalinism is they novel for you.
On Stalin and Stalinism.......2000-01-10
On Stalin and Stalinism is a book that I strongly recommend for anyone that is interested about the Russian Revolution and the conflicts it brought over who would have the most power between the key leaders including Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin. Medvedev examined first-hand stories from survivers of the Stalin Era, secret letters sent amongst government officials, and personal quotations that provided an insight to who these Soviet leaders were really like. The majority of the book was spent on the reasons why Stalin inflicted torture on innocent people. Their was never a boring part in the book but instead it kept me wanting to read more. Anybody who reads this book will gain an enormous amount of information about behind the scenes of the Communist Party. Instead of having his own opinion throughout the book, Medvedev was able to have a range of materials at his disposal since he is a Soviet author. If any student has to do a report on Stalin or is just in a mood to read a remarkable book then On Stalin and Stalinism is they novel for you.
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Origins of Stalinism: From Leninist Revolution to Stalinist Society
Pavel Campeanu
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Redefining Stalinism (Cass Series--Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions)
Harold Shukman
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"Is there a Western world leader whose reputation has not been re-analysed and reassessed, usually to his or her detriment?" With this question, Harold Shukman introduces "Redefining Stalinism", a collection of articles published 50 years after Stalin's death. With the opening of Soviet archives to an unprecedented degree since the demise of the USSR, totalitarian and revisionist arguments about Stalin and the Stalinist system can be more closely explored. Topics range from a survey of recent Western views of Stalin's Russia, to an account of Stalin's approach to intelligence, two separate analyses of totalitarianism, the politics of obligation, the cult of the dead in Soviet political memory, and the de-mythologising of Stalin in the years immediately following his death.
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