Politics and Society Under the Bolsheviks: Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995

Presenting 16 selected papers drawn from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies held in Warsaw in August 1995, addressing an array of topics including new data on the Revolutionary Communist Party from the Saratov and Central Communist Party archives; Stalinism in post-Soviet historical writing; work and leisure among textile workers in Soviet Russia; and activist women in the 1930s. Contributors include international scholars of political science, Russian history, East-West studies, and modern history, as well as Russian researchers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)