David Brandenberger

Stalin's Usable Past

A Critical Edition of the 1937 Short History of the USSR

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Produktbeschreibung

"At the height of the Great Terror in 1937, Joseph Stalin took a break from the purges to edit a new textbook on the history of the U.S.S.R. Published shortly thereafter, the Short History of the U.S.S.R amounted to an ideological sea change. Stalin had literally rewritten Russo-Soviet History, breaking with two decades of Bolshevik propaganda that styled the 1917 Revolution as the start of a new era. In its place, he established a thousand-year pedigree for the Soviet state that stretched back through the Russian empire and Muscovy to the very dawn of Slavic civilization. Appearing in million-copy print runs through 1955, the Short History transformed how a generation of Soviet citizens were to understand the past, not only in public school and adult indoctrination courses, but on the printed page, the theatrical stage, and the silver screen. Stalin's Usable Past supplies a critical edition of the Short History that both analyzes the text and places it in historical context. By highlighting Stalin's precise redactions and embellishments, historian David Brandenberger reveals the scope of Stalin's personal involvement in the textbook's development, documenting in unprecedented detail his plans for the transformation of Soviet society's historical imagination"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781503637863
• ISBN-10: 1503637867
• Artikelnr.: 68911619

Autorenporträt

David Brandenberger is professor of history at the University of Richmond.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
A Note on Conventions
Terms and Acronyms
Introduction to the Critical Edition
The Short History of the USSR
Introduction
I. Our Country in the Distant Past
II. The Kiev State
III. Eastern Europe under the Rule of the Mongol Conquerors
IV. The Rise of the Russian National State
V. The Expansion of the Russian State
VI. The Peasant Wars and Revolts of the Oppressed Peoples in the 17th
Century
VII. Russia in the 18th Century. The Empire of Landlords and Merchants
VIII. Tsarist Russia-the Gendarme of Europe
IX. The Growth of Capitalism in Tsarist Russia
X. The First Bourgeois Revolution in Russia
XI. The Second Bourgeois Revolution in Russia
XII. The Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia
XIII. Military Intervention. The Civil War
XIV. The Turn to Peaceful Labour. Economic Restoration of the Country
XV. U.S.S.R. is the Land of Victorious Socialism
Chronological Table
Appendix: Further Revisions to Stalin's Usable Past, 1937-1955
Notes
Index