This book provides a wide-ranging history of every aspect of Stalin's dictatorship over the peoples of the Soviet Union. Drawing upon a huge array of primary and secondary sources, <EM>The Stalin Era</EM> is a first-hand account of Stalinist thought, policy and and their effects. It places the man and his ideology into context both within pre-Revolutionary Russia, Lenin's Soviet Union and post-Stalinist Russia. <EM>The Stalin Era</EM> examines: <BR>* collectivisation<BR>* industrialisation<BR>* terror<BR>* government<BR>* the Cult of Stalin<BR>* education and Science<BR>* family<BR>* religion: The Russian Orthodox Church<BR>* art and the state.