Stalin's Usable Past

A Critical Edition of the 1937 Short History of the USSR

David Brandenberger (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

472 Seiten

2024
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3786-3 (ISBN)

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At the height of the Great Terror in 1937, Joseph Stalin took a break from the purges to edit a new textbook on the history of the USSR. Published shortly thereafter, the Short History of the USSR amounted to an ideological sea change. Stalin had literally rewritten Russo-Soviet History, breaking with two decades of Bolshevik propaganda that styled the 1917 Revolution as the start of a new era. In its place, he established a thousand-year pedigree for the Soviet state that stretched back through the Russian empire and Muscovy to the very dawn of Slavic civilization. Appearing in million-copy print runs through 1955, the Short History transformed how a generation of Soviet citizens were to understand the past, not only in public school and adult indoctrination courses, but on the printed page, the theatrical stage, and the silver screen.

Stalin's Usable Past supplies a critical edition of the Short History that both analyzes the text and places it in historical context. By highlighting Stalin's precise redactions and embellishments, historian David Brandenberger reveals the scope of Stalin's personal involvement in the textbook's development, documenting in unprecedented detail his plans for the transformation of Soviet society's historical imagination.

David Brandenberger is professor of history at the University of Richmond.

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Acknowledgments

A Note on Conventions

Terms and Acronyms

Introduction to the Critical Edition

The Short History of the USSR

Introduction

I. Our Country in the Distant Past

II. The Kiev State

III. Eastern Europe under the Rule of the Mongol Conquerors

IV. The Rise of the Russian National State

V. The Expansion of the Russian State

VI. The Peasant Wars and Revolts of the Oppressed Peoples in the 17th Century

VII. Russia in the 18th Century. The Empire of Landlords and Merchants

VIII. Tsarist Russia—the Gendarme of Europe

IX. The Growth of Capitalism in Tsarist Russia

X. The First Bourgeois Revolution in Russia

XI. The Second Bourgeois Revolution in Russia

XII. The Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia

XIII. Military Intervention. The Civil War

XIV. The Turn to Peaceful Labour. Economic Restoration of the Country

XV. U.S.S.R. is the Land of Victorious Socialism

Chronological Table

Appendix: Further Revisions to Stalin's Usable Past, 1937–1955

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Stanford–Hoover Series on Authoritarianism
Zusatzinfo	148 halftones, 7 maps
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-5036-3786-7 / 1503637867
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-3786-3 / 9781503637863
Zustand	Neuware