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  Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization: Ideas, Power and Terror in Inter-war Russia (Hardback) By (author) David Priestland

  

  

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  Short Description for Stalinism and the Politics of MobilizationPresents a reassessment of Bolshevik ideology, and of the ways in which it interacted with other political forces during the period. By analysing the political discourse of the Bolshevik leadership, this study shows how differing interpretations of Marxism-Leninism informed contrasting political and economic strategies.
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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Published: 29 March 2007
  • Format: Hardback 512 pages
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  • Categories: Marxism & Communism | Political Structures: Totalitarianism & Dictatorship | Economic History | European History | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000
  • ISBN 13: 9780199245130 ISBN 10: 0199245134
  • Sales rank: 1,076,107

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• Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization offers a new interpretation of Bolshevik ideology, examines its relationship with Soviet politics between 1917 and 1939, and sheds new light on the origins of the political violence of the late 1930s. While it challenges older views that the Stalinist system and the Terror were the product of a coherent Marxist-Leninist blueprint, imposed by a group of committed ideologues, it argues that ideas mattered in Bolshevik politics and that there are strong continuities between the politics of the revolutionary period and those of the 1930s. By exploring divisions within the party over several issues, including class, the relations between elites and masses, and economic policy, David Priestland shows how a number of ideological trends emerged within Bolshevik politics, and how they were related to political and economic interests and strategies. He also argues that central to the launching of the Terror was the leadership's commitment to a strategy of mobilization, and to a view of politics that ultimately derived from the left Bolshevism of the revolutionary period.