The Lost Politburo Transcripts
From Collective Rule to Stalin's Dictatorship
1st Edition
Published in December 2008
280 pages
978-0-300-15222-7 (ISBN)
Description
In this groundbreaking book, prominent Western and Russian scholars examine the lost transcripts of the Soviet Politburo, a set of verbatim accounts of meetings that took place from the 1920s to 1938 but remained hidden in secret archives until the late 1990s. Never intended for publication or wide distribution, these records (known as stenograms in Russia) reveal the actual process of decision making at the highest levels of the Soviet communist party. The transcripts also provide new, first-hand records of the rise of Stalins dictatorship.The contributors to the volume explore the power struggles among the Politburo members, their methods of discourse and propaganda, and their economic policies. Taken as a whole, the essays shed light on early Soviet history and on the individuals who supported or opposed Stalins consolidation of power.
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Paul R. Gregory | Norman Naimark
The Lost Politburo Transcripts
From Collective Rule to Stalin's Dictatorship
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11/2008
Yale University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I. Introduction
- 1. Findings and Perspectives
- 2. The Politburo's Role as Revealed by the Lost Transcripts
- II. The Power Struggle
- 3. Stalin in the Light of the Politburo Transcripts
- 4. ''Class Brothers Unite!'' The British General Strike and the Formation of the ''United Opposition''
- 5. Stalin, Syrtsov, Lominadze: Preparations for the ''Second Great Breakthrough''
- 6. The ''Right Opposition'' and the ''Smirnov-Eismont-Tolmachev Affair''
- III. Discourse, Ideology, and Propaganda
- 7. The Way They Talked Then: The Discourse of Politics in the Soviet Party Politburo in the Late 1920s
- 8. Making the Unthinkable Thinkable: Language Microhistory of Politburo Meetings
- 9. The Short Course of the History of the All-Union Communist Party: The Distorted Mirror of Party Propaganda
- IV. Economic Policy
- 10. Grain, Class, and Politics During NEP: The Politburo Meeting of December 10, 1925
- 11. The Politburo on Gold, Industrialization, and the International Economy, 1925-1926
- 12. Prices in the Politburo, 1927: Market Equilibrium versus the Use of Force
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
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- T
- U
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- W
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