Stalinist Confessions: Messianism and Terror at the Leningrad Communist University (Russian and East European Studies)

by IgalHalfin (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2009

  $86.13

  Investigates the phenomenon of a mass surrender to the will of the state. This book deciphers the skillfully rendered discourse through which Stalin defined his cult of personality and consolidated his power by building a grassroots base of support and instilling a collective psyche in every citizen.