The lost Politburo transcripts : from collective rule to Stalin's dictatorship / edited by Paul R. Gregory and Norman Naimark.

Prominent Westen and Russian scholars examine the 'lost' transcripts of the Soviet Politburo, a set of verbatim accounts of meetings that took place from the 1920s to 1938 but remained hidden in secret archives until the late 1990s.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Corporate Author: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Other Authors: Gregory, Paul R., Naimark, Norman M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Univ. Press, ©2008.
Series:Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.
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Table of Contents:
  • Findings and perspectives / Norman Naimark
  • The Politburo's role as revealed by the lost transcripts / Paul Gregory
  • Stalin in the light of the Politburo transcripts / Hiroaki Kuromiya
  • "Class bothers unite!" the British general strike and the formation of the "united opposition" / Alexander Vatlin
  • Stalin, Syrtsov, Lominadze : preparations for the "second great breakthrough" / Oleg Khlevniuk
  • The "right opposition" and the "Smirnov-Eismont-Tolmachev affair" / Charters Wynn
  • The way they talked then : the discourse of politics in the Soviet Party Politburo in the late 1920s / Robert Service
  • Making the unthinkable thinkable : language microhistory of Politburo meetings / Leona Toker
  • The short course of the history of the all-union Communist Party : the distorted mirror of party propaganda / Rustem Nureev
  • Grain, class, and politics during NEP : the Politburo meeting of December 10, 1925 / R.W. Davies
  • The Politburo on gold, industrialization, and the international economy, 1925-1926 / David M. Woodruff
  • Prices in the Politburo, 1927 : market equilibrium versus the use of force / Mark Harrison.