The Stalin Era

This book provides a wide-ranging history of every aspect of Stalin's dictatorship over the peoples of the Soviet Union. Drawing upon a huge array of primary and secondary sources, The Stalin Era is a first-hand account of Stalinist thought, policy and and their effects. It places the man and his ideology into context both within pre-Revolutionary Russia, Lenin's Soviet Union and post-Stalinist Russia. The Stalin Era examines:

* collectivisation

* industrialisation

* terror

* government

* the Cult of Stalin

* education and Science

* family

* religion: The Russian Orthodox Church

* art and the state.