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Stalin, Siberia and the Crisis of the New Economic Policy

By James Hughes

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0521545692, 9780521545693, 0521380391, 9780521380393, 9780511523687
LCC
HC337.R852 S52435 1991
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5776284 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
Pages
280\279
Topic
Economy
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book makes an important contribution to the current re-evaluation of the origins of Stalinism. Hitherto, Western scholars have focused on leading personalities to analyze the crisis of the New Economic Policy. Dr. James Hughes, however, examines the processes at work under the NEP from the regional perspective of Siberia. He looks at party-peasant relations, the kulak question, Stalin's patron-client network in the provinces, the regional impact of the grain crisis of 1927-28 and the use of emergency measures to overcome it. He concludes that Stalin's experience of conditions that were unique to Siberia accelerated his negative reappraisal of the NEP and initiated the descent into the cataclysm of his "revolution from above" in late 1929.

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