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Stalin's Usable Past: A Critical Edition of the 1937 Short History of the USSR

Stalin's Usable Past: A Critical Edition of the 1937 Short History of the USSR

Brandenberger, David

Hardcover

Series: Stanford-Hoover Authoritarianism

General Political ScienceGeneral World HistoryRussian History

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ISBN10: 1503637867
ISBN13: 9781503637863
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: May 21 2024
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

At the height of the Great Terror in 1937, Joseph Stalin took a break from the purges to edit a new textbook on the history of the USSR. Published shortly thereafter, the Short History of the USSR amounted to an ideological sea change. Stalin had literally rewritten Russo-Soviet History, breaking with two decades of Bolshevik propaganda that styled the 1917 Revolution as the start of a new era. In its place, he established a thousand-year pedigree for the Soviet state that stretched back through the Russian empire and Muscovy to the very dawn of Slavic civilization. Appearing in million-copy print runs through 1955, the Short History transformed how a generation of Soviet citizens were to understand the past, not only in public school and adult indoctrination courses, but on the printed page, the theatrical stage, and the silver screen.

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