Examining the period from the early 1930s through Stalin's death in 1953--the height of the Stalinist regime--this enlightening book reveals what we have learned from the archives, what has surprised us, and what has confirmed what we already knew. Contributors: Eugenia Belova, Joseph Berliner, Robert W. Davies, Paul Gregory, Mark Harrison, Oleg Khlevnyuk, A. E. Rees, Aleksei Tikhonov