Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 Stalinism still casts itsshadow over postCommunist Russia. For the Second Edition of this popuar textthe author... » 

Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 Stalinism still casts itsshadow over postCommunist Russia. For the Second Edition of this popuar textthe author reexamines this remarkable phenomenon in the light of the latestresearch findings of the Russian archives. As with all the books in the seriesMartin McCauley addresses the key questions facing students and also takesinto account the vigorous scholarly debate between the old dominanttotalitarian interpretation of Stalinism and the alternative school of thoughtput forward by the social historians in the 1980s. «