Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism

James Ryan is Senior Lecturer in Modern European (Russian) History at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of Lenin’s Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence (2012), and his articles have appeared in journals such as Slavic Review, Europe-Asia Studies, and Historical Research.Susan Grant is Reader in Modern European History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is the author of Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society (2013), and articles in journals such as the American Journal of Public Health, Medical History, and Revolutionary Russia.

This useful volume makes a small step toward filling in some of the blanks of a particularly obscure and gruesome period in human history.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism, James Ryan (Cardiff University, UK) and Susan Grant (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)Part I. The Controversial Vozhd’: Stalin as Leader and Statesman 1. The Many Lives of Joseph Stalin: Writing the Biography of a ‘Monster’, Christopher Read (Warwick University, UK)2. Stalin’s Purge of the Red Army and Misperception of Security Threats, Peter Whitewood (York St. John University, UK)3. Stalin and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939: The New Historiography, Daniel Kowalsky (Queen's University Belfast, UK)4. Brute Force and Genius: Stalin as War Leader, Chris Bellamy (University of Greenwich, UK)Part II. Challenging Stalinist Models: Cults of Personality5. The Stalin Cult in Comparative Context, Judith Devlin (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)6. From Heroic Lion to Streetfighter: Historical Legacies and the Leader Cult in 20th Century Hungary, Balázs Apor (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)Part III. New Ways of Understanding the Stalinist System: The Cold War7. Revisioning Stalin’s Cold War, Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Loughborough University, UK)8. Working Towards the Vozhd’? Stalin and the Peace Movement, Geoffrey Roberts (University College Cork, Ireland)9. Construction of a Confession: The Language and Psychology of Interrogations in Stalinist Czechoslovakia, Molly Pucci (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)Part IV. In Lieu of an Epilogue10. Reckoning with the Past: Stalin and Stalinism in Putin’s Russia, James Ryan (Cardiff University, UK)Select BibliographyIndex