Stalinism

Acknowledgments ix Glossary xi Introduction: Interpretations of Stalinism 1 David L. Hoffmann Part I The Origins of Stalinism 9 1 Stalin's Role 11 Stalin and his Stalinism: Power and Authority in the Soviet Union,1930-1953 13 Ronald Grigor Suny 2 Social Origins 37 Grappling with Stalinism 39 Moshe Lewin 3 Socialist Ideology 63 The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia 65 Martin Malia 4 The Foreign Threat 81 The Objectives of the Great Terror, 1937-1938 83 Oleg Khlevnyuk 5 The Welfare State 105 Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization 107 Stephen Kotkin 6 State Violence 127 State Violence as Technique: The Logic of Violence in SovietTotalitarianism 129 Peter Holquist Part II The Consequences of Stalinism 157 7 Resistance and Conformity 159 Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times 161 Sheila Fitzpatrick 8 Stalinist Subjectivity 179 Working, Struggling, Becoming: Stalin-Era Autobiographical Texts181 Jochen Hellbeck 9 Women and Gender 211 Women in Soviet Society: Equality, Development, and Social Change213 Gail Warshofsky Lapidus 10 Ethnicity and Nationality 237 Nature and Nurture in a Socialist Utopia: Delineating the SovietSocio-Ethnic Body in the Age of Socialism 239 Amir Weiner 11 The Postwar Years 275 Russia after the War: Hopes, Illusions, and Disappointments277 Elena Zubkova Index 302