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In this book, Western 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. Never intended for publication or wide distribution, these records (known as stenograms in Russia) reveal the actual process of decision making at the highest levels of the Soviet communist party. The transcripts also provide new, firsthand records of the rise of Stalin's dictatorship. The contributors to the book explore the power struggles among the Politbur ... More
Keywords: Soviet Politburo, stenograms, decision making, Soviet communist party, Stalin's dictatorship, power struggles, Politburo members, propaganda, economic policies, early Soviet history
Print publication date: 2008 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300134247 |
Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300134247.001.0001 |
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