Up to now the culture of the Stalin period has been studied mainly from a political or ideological point of view. In this book renowned specialists from many co

Soviet official culture underwent a dramatic shift in the mid-1930s, when Stalin and his fellow leaders began to promote conventional norms, patriarchal familie

In the early sixteenth century, the monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the "Third Rome." By the 1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Mosco

Leaders of the Soviet Union, Stalin chief among them, well understood the power of art, and their response was to attempt to control and direct it in every way

Placing Stalinism in its international context, The Stalinist Era explains the origins and consequences of Soviet state intervention and violence.