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Stalin's World

Stalin's World

Dictating the Soviet Order

by James Harris and Sarah Davies
Hardback
Publication Date: 08/01/2015

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Drawing on recently declassified material from Stalin's personal archive in Moscow, this is the first attempt by scholars to systematically analyze the way Stalin interpreted and envisioned his world--both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Since Stalin rarely left his offices and perceived the world largely through the prism of verbal and written reports, meetings, articles, letters, and books, a comprehensive analysis of these materials provides a unique and valuable opportunity to study his way of thinking and his interaction with the outside world.

Comparing the materials that Stalin read from week to week with the decisions that he subsequently shaped, Sarah Davies and James Harris show not only how Stalin perceived the world but also how he misperceived it. After considering the often far-reaching consequences of those misperceptions, they investigate Stalin's contribution to the production and regulation of official verbal discourse in a system in which huge political importance was attached to the correct use of words and phrases..

ISBN:
9780300182811
9780300182811
Category:
European history
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
08-01-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
24.3x16.4x3mm
Weight:
0.65kg
James Harris

James Harris is a writer, filmmaker, performer, pole-vaulter, wizard and exaggerator based in Middlesbrough. He is a mentor and workshop leader for Writers' Block North East, a Teesside creative writing and development service. He's made short films, sketches and animations for the BBC and Channel 4, and he sometimes performs live comedy with his friends. He's enjoyed being occasionally shortlisted for things since 2004, but he's never won anything until now.

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