The Stalin Revolution: Foundations of the Totalitarian Era

by Robert V. Daniels (Editor)

The only anthology of its kind to address the Stalin era, this volume in the Problems in European Civilization series presents the recent work of scholars in the United States, Europe, and Russia. The introduction discusses the significance of the Stalin Revolution with relation to the collapse of Communism.

Genres: Nonfiction

294 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Robert Vincent Daniels studied at Harvard, received his AB degree in 1945, and PhD. degree in 1951. He has done research at the Russian Research Center at Harvard, taught Russian history at Indiana University, Bennington College, and the University of Vermont, and traveled in Russia.

Daniels published articles in the leading scholarly journals dealing with the history of Russian and communism. He was well known as the author of "The Conscience of the Revolution" and "The Nature of Communism."

Reviews

[Marek Eby · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really good collection surveying of the main questions and disputes over Stalinism up to 1990 (that is, predating Kotkin's Magnetic Mountain and the neo-totalitarian school, as well as the question of Stalinist subjectivity)

[Spencer Willardson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of my free book acquisitions. It had a wide variety of different authors writing about the Stalin period from different perspectives. It was interesting.