Life in Stalin's Soviet Union

Kees Boterbloem is Professor of History at the University of South Florida, USA. He is the author of nine books on Russian, Soviet and World History, including A History of Russia and Its Empire (2nd edition, 2018), The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896-1948 (2004) and Life and Death under Stalin (1999). He was, from 2008 to 2018, editor of the journal The Historian.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroduction, Kees Boterbloem (University of South Florida, USA)1. The End of the Russian Peasants under Stalin, Kees Boterbloem (University of South Florida, USA)2. Food Consumption, Diet and Famines, Elena Osokina (University of South Carolina, USA)3. The Cities: Urbanization and Modern Life, Heather Dehaan (Binghamton University, USA)4. On the Margins: Social Dislocation and Criminality in the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s, David Shearer (University of Delaware, USA)5. The Gulag under Stalin, Golfo Alexopoulos (University of South Florida, USA)6. Private Ivan’s Life and Fate: Daily Life in Stalin’s Red Army during the "Great Patriotic War", Kenneth Slepyan (Transylvania University, USA)7. The History of Disability during Stalinism, Frances Bernstein (Drew University, USA)8. Gender and Sexuality, Amy Randall (Santa Clara University, USA)9. The Educational Experience in Stalin’s Russia, 1931-1945, Larry E. Holmes (University of South Alabama, USA)10. A Year of Celebrations in the Life of a Soviet Student, Karen Petrone (University of Kentucky, USA)11. Soviet People’s Informal Interactions with Officials of the Stalin-Era Party-State, James Heinzen (Rowan University, USA)12. The Religious Front: Militant Atheists and Militant Believers, Gregory Freeze (Brandeis University, USA) Index

Life in Stalin’s Soviet Union is a welcome addition to the volumes currently available for teaching the history of Stalinism. While earlier collections tend to focus on the 1930s, many of the chapters in this work chart the full period of Stalinist rule, from the late 1920s to 1953.