Using a variety of old and new archival sources to examine the
emergence of the Soviet system (1917-1937), this combined approach
offers chronologically coherent and original construction of some
crucial stages and problems in Soviet history. The past two
centuries have produced an extraordinary number of new states--more
than 30 in 20th-century Europe alone. It is within this turbulent
context that one must analyze the rise of the Soviet state, an
entity that would prove fragile in the long run despite its
all-powerful facade. An examination of the extreme features and
peculiarities of the Soviet variant offers revealing insights into
this exceptional historical process and contributes to a wider
understanding of the European Forty Year War (1912-1953).
Graziosi devotes particular attention to Soviet solutions to the
peasant and nationality problems, as well as to the pre-eminent
role of ideology, the rise of personal despotism, and the unusual
degree of penetration between state and economy. Using a variety of
interpretations, he applies concepts from political, economic, and
social history to the Soviet phenomenon without losing sight of its
connections with more general European developments. The life of a
Bolshevik leader is used to provide an overview of the whole period
from six points of view: psychology, ideology, despotism,
nationality, relations with the West, and economic building. Also,
an analysis of industrialization based on the accounts of foreign
workers who often met a tragic fate in the great purges contributes
significantly to an assessment of the role that myth building
played in the Stalinist repression of the Soviet working class.
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