Stalin's World by Sarah Davies

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Summary

Drawing on declassified material from Stalin's personal archive, this book analyzes how Stalin saw his world - both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context.

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Stalin's World by Sarah Davies

Drawing on declassified material from Stalin's personal archive, this book analyzes how Stalin saw his world - both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context.
“Davies and Harris are THE specialists on Stalin's personal archive, which contains the dictator's notes, rough drafts and correspondenceThey present a careful study of how Stalin processed information in areas ranging from terror to art, foreign policy to leadership technique, class to cults of personality.  This will be the standard scholarly work on Stalin for years to come.”—J. Arch Getty, author of Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition -- J. Arch Getty
Sarah Davies is senior lecturer in history in the Department of History at Durham University. James Harris is senior lecturer in modern European history at the University of Leeds.
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ISBN 13 9780300182811
ISBN 10 0300182813
Title Stalin's World
Author Sarah Davies
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Yale University Press
Year published 2015-01-08
Number of pages 360
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