This anthology presents studies of Stalinism in the ethnic and religious bor-derlands of the Soviet Union. The authors not only cover hitherto less researched g

The chilling story of Stalin’s crimes against humanity Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizen

Is the concept of "race" applicable to Russia and the Soviet Union? Citing the idea of Russian exceptionalism, many would argue that in the nineteenth and twent

Two of the most striking manifestations of Soviet image culture were the children's book and the poster. This text plots the development of this new image cultu

Placing Stalinism in its international context, The Stalinist Era explains the origins and consequences of Soviet state intervention and violence.