Stalin as Bolshevik romantic: Ideology and mobilisation, 1917–1939

Stalin: A New History

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 181-201

  Priestland, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511614897.013     Document Type: Chapter

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