Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism Complexities, Contradictions, and Controversies
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Biographical note
James Ryan is Senior Lecturer in Modern European (Russian) History at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of Lenin’s Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence (2012), and his articles have appeared in journals such as Slavic Review, Europe-Asia Studies, and Historical Research. Susan Grant is Reader in Modern European History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is the author of Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society (2013), and articles in journals such as the American Journal of Public Health, Medical History, and Revolutionary Russia.This 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
Scholars 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
This 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