Essays on Revolutionary Culture and Stalinism

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The articles selected for publication in this volume were chosen from among those presented at the Third World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies held in Washington, D.C., from 30 October to 4 November 1985. The Congress, which was sponsored by the International Committee for Soviet and East European Studies and the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, attracted over 3,000 scholars from forty-one countries. This figure represents a two-fold increase over the number of delegates who attended either the First Congress in Banff, Canada, in 1974 or the Second Congress in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1980 and reflects the revival of Slavic studies throughout the world. More than 600 papers were formally presented or distributed at the Washington Congress. From among the substantial number submitted for possible publication in this series, the Editorial Committee has selected 160 to appear in fifteen volumes. Five volumes are being published in the social sciences; three by Cambridge University Press and two by Lynne Rienner Publishers. Five volumes devoted to history and literature are being published by Slavica Publishers while the remaining five in education, law, library science, linguistics and Slovene studies are appearing as part of established series or as special issues of scholarly journals. The titles of all these publications will be found at the end of this volume. CONTENTS Foreword by R. C. Elwood Editorial Board Introduction by John W. Strong Richard Stites, Festival and Revolution: The Role of Public Spectacle in Russia, 1917-1918 Gabriele Gmzka, Proletarian Culture in Practice: Worker's Clubs, 1917-1921 Felix Patrikeejf, Russian and Soviet Economic Penetration of North-Eastern China, 1895-1933 Ben-Cion Pinchuk, Sovietization of the Shtetl of Eastern Poland, 1939-1941 Michal Reiman, The Russian Revolution and Stalinism: A Political Problem and Its Historiographic Content Pierre Broue, Party Opposition to Stalin (1930-1932) and the First Moscow Trial Graeme Gill, Stalinism and Institutionalization: The Nature of Stalin's Regional Support Niels E. Rosenfeldt, Stalinism as a System of Communication Michael Gelb, Mass Politics under Stalinism: Two Case Studies William Chase and J. Arch Getty, The Soviet Bureaucracy in 1935: A Socio-Political Profile Roberta T. Manning, Peasants and the Party: Rural Administration in the Soviet Countryside on the Eve of World War II