The lost Politburo transcripts : from collective rule to Stalin's dictatorship / edited by Paul R. Gregory and Norman Naimark
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| Subjects: | Soviet Union--Politics and government--1917-1936--Sources T͡SK KPSS. Politbi͡uro--History--Sources |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution, Stanford University ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008 |
| Series: | Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War |
| LC Classification: | J, JN |
| Table of Contents: | I. Introduction 1. Findings and Perspectives / Norman Naimark 3 2. The Politburo's Role as Revealed by the Lost Transcripts / Paul Gregory 16 II. The Power Struggle 3. Stalin in the Light of the Politburo Transcripts / Hiroaki Kuromiya 41 4. "Class Brothers Unite!" The British General Strike and the Formation of the "United Opposition" / Alexander Vatlin 57 5. Stalin, Syrtsov, Lominadze: Preparations for the "Second Great Breakthrough" / Oleg Khlevniuk 78 6. The "Right Opposition" and the "Smirnov-Eismont-Tolmachev Affair" / Charters Wynn 97 III. Discourse, Ideology, and Propaganda 7. The Way They Talked Then: The Discourse of Politics in the Soviet Party Politburo in the Late 1920s / Robert Service 121 8. Making the Unthinkable Thinkable: Language Microhistory of Politburo Meetings / Leona Toker 135 9. The Short Course of the History of the All-Union Communist Party: The Distorted Mirror of Party Propaganda / Rustem Nureev 165 IV. Economic Policy 10. Grain, Class, and Politics During NEP: The Politburo Meeting of December 10, 1925 / R. W. Davies 181 11. The Politburo on Gold, Industrialization, and the International Economy, 1925-1926 / David M. Woodruff 199 12. Prices in the Politburo, 1927: Market Equilibrium versus the Use of Force / Mark Harrison 224 Bibliography 247 List of Contributors 259 Index 261 |
| Additional Authors: | Gregory, Paul R Naimark, Norman M |
| Notes: | LCCN: 2008021449 ISBN: 9780300134247 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN: 030013424X (cloth : alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-257) and index Contents: Findings and perspectives / Norman Naimark -- The Politburo's role as revealed by the lost transcripts / Paul Gregory -- Stalin in the light of the Politburo transcripts / Hiroaki Kuromiya -- "Class bothers unite!" the British general strike and the formation of the "united opposition" / Alexander Vatlin -- Stalin, Syrtsov, Lominadze : preparations for the "second great breakthrough" / Oleg Khlevniuk -- The "right opposition" and the "Smirnov-Eismont-Tolmachev affair" / Charters Wynn -- The way they talked then : the discourse of politics in the Soviet Party Politburo in the late 1920s / Robert Service -- Making the unthinkable thinkable : language microhistory of Politburo meetings / Leona Toker -- The Short course of the history of the all-union Communist Party : the distorted mirror of party propaganda / Rustem Nureev -- Grain, class, and politics during NEP : the Politburo meeting of December 10, 1925 / R.W. Davies -- The Politburo on gold, industrialization, and the international economy, 1925-1926 / David M. Woodruff -- Prices in the Politburo, 1927 : market equilibrium versus the use of force / Mark Harrison |
| Physical Description: | viii, 271 p. : ill. ; 25 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 223871593 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9780300134247 030013424X |