stalinist self ii
The 鈥楽talinist Self鈥� II
- How do rituals of criticism and self-criticism work?
- Is the use of religious categories convincing in research on Stalinism and Stalinist political culture?
- Analyse Bukharin's last letter to Stalin.
- How do you explain Bukharin's strategy during his trial?
Sources
(Moscow Trials)
Bukharin's letter to Stalin, Getty/Naumov, The Road to Terror, pp. 553-568 (pp. 556-560 - essential reading)
Essential Reading
Halfin, Igal, 鈥楲鈥� Hellbeck, Jochen, '; Naiman, Eric, 鈥�, Russian Review, 60 (2001), pp. 307-359.
Gregory, Paul R., '', Hoover Digest 2010, no. 3.
Recommended Reading
Gregory, Paul R., (Stanford, 2010)
Kojevnikov, Alexei, 'Rituals of Stalinist Culture at Work: Science and the Games of Intraparty Democracy circa 1948', Russian Review, 57 (1998), pp. 25-52
'Party Discipline and the Fall of Bukharin' (primary sources), Getty/Naumov, The Road to Terror, pp. 364-413.
Further Reading
Schl枚gel, Karl, (Cambridge, 2012)
Carmichael, Joel, Stalin's masterpiece: the show trials and purges of the thirties, the consolidation of the Bolshevik dictatorship (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976)