Stalinism surveys the efforts made in recent years by
professional historians, in Russia and the West, to better
understand what really went on in the USSR between 1929 and 1953,
when the country's affairs were shrouded in secrecy.
The opening of the Soviet archives in 1991 has led to a
profusion of historical studies, whose strengths and weaknesses are
assessed here impartially though not uncritically. While Joseph
Stalin now emerges as a less omnipotent figure than he seemed to be
at the time, most serious writers accept that the system over which
he ruled was despotic and totalitarian. Some nostalgic nationalists
in Russia, along with some Western post-modernists, disagree. Their
arguments are carefully dissected here. Stalinism was of course
much more than state sponsored terror, and so due attention is paid
to a wide range of socio-economic and cultural problems. Keep and
Litvin applaud the efforts of Soviet citizens to express dissenting
views.
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