 | Stalin''s World: Dictating the Soviet Order Subjects: Stalin Joseph 1879–1953 -- Political and social views; Stalin Joseph 1879–1953 -- Language; Political leadership -- Soviet Union -- History; Communism -- Soviet Union -- Philosophy; Political culture -- Soviet Union -- History; Heads of state -- Sovie; Drawing on declassified material from Stalin's personal archive, this is the first systematic attempt to analyze how Stalin saw his world--both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Stalin rarely left his offices and viewed the world largely through the prism of verbal and written reports, meetings, articles, letters, and books. Analyzing these materials, Sarah Davies and James Harris provide a new understanding of Stalin's thought process and leadership style and explore not only his perceptions and misperceptions of the world but the consequences of these perceptions and misperceptions. Sarah Davies is senior lecturer in history in the Department of History at Durham University. James Harris is senior lecturer in modern European history at the University of Leeds. |
