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Title The lost Politburo transcripts : from collective rule to Stalin's dictatorship / edited by Paul R. Gregory and Norman Naimark.

Publication Info. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Univ. Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 271 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.
Note "Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-257) and index.
Contents Findings and perspectives / Norman Naimark -- The Politburo's role as revealed by the lost transcripts / Paul Gregory -- Stalin in the light of the Politburo transcripts / Hiroaki Kuromiya -- "Class bothers unite!" the British general strike and the formation of the "united opposition" / Alexander Vatlin -- Stalin, Syrtsov, Lominadze : preparations for the "second great breakthrough" / Oleg Khlevniuk -- The "right opposition" and the "Smirnov-Eismont-Tolmachev affair" / Charters Wynn -- The way they talked then : the discourse of politics in the Soviet Party Politburo in the late 1920s / Robert Service -- Making the unthinkable thinkable : language microhistory of Politburo meetings / Leona Toker -- The short course of the history of the all-union Communist Party : the distorted mirror of party propaganda / Rustem Nureev -- Grain, class, and politics during NEP : the Politburo meeting of December 10, 1925 / R.W. Davies -- The Politburo on gold, industrialization, and the international economy, 1925-1926 / David M. Woodruff -- Prices in the Politburo, 1927 : market equilibrium versus the use of force / Mark Harrison.
Summary Prominent Westen and Russian scholars examine the 'lost' transcripts of the Soviet Politburo, a set of verbatim accounts of meetings that took place from the 1920s to 1938 but remained hidden in secret archives until the late 1990s.
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Subject T͡SK KPSS. Politbi͡uro -- History -- Sources.
T͡SK KPSS. Politbi͡uro.
History.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject T͡SK KPSS. Politbi͡uro -- Sources -- History.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936 -- Sources.
Soviet Union.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1917-1936
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Gregory, Paul R.
Naimark, Norman M.
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace.
Other Form: Print version: Lost Politburo transcripts. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Univ. Press, ©2008 9780300134247 030013424X (DLC) 2008021449 (OCoLC)223871593
ISBN 9780300152227 (electronic book)
0300152221 (electronic book)
1282352148
9781282352148
9780300134247 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
030013424X