Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confirmation of a New Elite, 1945-1953 - by E Duskin (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confrontation of a New Elite, 1945-53 looks at the postwar Stalin era through the eyes of industrial supervisors and offers a picture of the technical intelligentsia's transformation into the Soviet Union's social and political elite. Drawing from archives, newspapers, memoirs, and an array of secondary sources, the book reveals new aspects of the Stalin phenomenon and concludes that, contrary to prior assumptions, the late-Stalin years marked the Soviet Union's passage from the convulsion and disorder of revolution to the routinized professionalization common to most industrial societies.

Review Quotes

'...an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the intelligentsia, an important aspect of social and economic history in Stalin's last years.' - Derek Watson, CREES, University of Birmingham, Slavic Review

About the Author

J. ERIC DUSKIN is an assistant Professor of History at Northern Illinois University where he teaches courses on Soviet Thought and Culture, Stalin and Stalinism, the Russian Revolution, and the History of the Soviet Union and Beyond.