Stalin's Russia

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"The ebb and flow of debate about Stalin's Russia is captured in Chris Ward's account, which not only conceptualizes the field in a clear and helpful way and offers a synthesis of the vast secondary literature in the area but also provides the author's own evaluation of the key issues at stake. The second edition retains all the virtues of the first but is able to take more account of the new opportunities afforded to historians - both Russian and Western - by the collapse of Communism and the greater availability to researchers of archival sources unscreened by a regime determined its valuation of the past should prevail. In addition, in recognition of the importance to Stalin's regime of foreign policy, that area now has an entirely new chapter dedicated to it."--Jacket.