Stalinism ‘From Below’?: Social Preconditions of and Popular Responses to the Great Terror

This article engages with recent western historiography on Stalinism, in particular the origins and nature of the Great Terror. I seek to contextualise the material on the Terror by re‐examining the relationship between state and society in Stalinist Russia. The partial opening of the former Soviet...

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Main Author: McDermott, Kevin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2007
In: Totalitarian movements and political religions
Year: 2007, Volume: 8, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 609-622
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)

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