Reflections on Stalinism

J. Arch Getty specializes in the Stalin period and the history of the Soviet Communist Party. He is Distinguished Research Professor of History at UCLA. He is the founder of Praxis International, and his articles and books on Stalinist politics and the Soviet Communist Party have been published throughout the world. His most recent book is Practicing Stalinism.Lewis H. Siegelbaum is Jack and Margaret Sweet Professor Emeritus of History at Michigan State University where he taught from 1983 until 2018. He is the author of books on Soviet labor, material culture, migration, and consumption. His memoir, Stuck on Communism, was published in 2019.

Readers with an interest in Stalinism will benefit from the collective reflections proffered by these scholars. Recommended.(Choice)

• Introduction: Reflecting on ReflectionsPart One: The Social1. Personal Reflections on Stalinism and Social History2. Revisiting Stalinist Social Mobility3. Marxism and the Study of the Stalinist SystemPart Two: Mass Repression/Terror4. Stalinism, the Terror, and Social History5. Lost and Found Revolutions: Between Emancipatory Dreams and Mass Terror in the Soviet Union6. Wrestling with Aspects of Interwar StalinismPart Three: Beliefs and Emotions7. Affective Dispositions, Bolshevism and Stalinism: The Rational Actor in His Emotional Environment8. Fear, Belief, and StalinismPart Four: The Ideological9. Stalin as Historian and Legalist10. Stalin as Revolutionary Social DemocratPart Five: The Spatial11. Power, Violence, and Rurality in the Soviet Union in the 1930s12. How I Learned to Read Stalin's Time in Space