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Professor Sarah Davies' Outputs (9)

Stalin as patron of cinema: creating Soviet mass culture 1932-1936 (2005)
Book Chapter
Davies, S. (2005). Stalin as patron of cinema: creating Soviet mass culture 1932-1936. In S. Davies, & J. Harris (Eds.), Stalin : a new history (202-225). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511614897.014

At his two well-known meetings with writers at Gorky's home in October 1932, Stalin encouraged his audience to focus on writing plays, which he believed to be most accessible to workers: ‘Poems are good. Novels are even better. But at the moment more... Read More about Stalin as patron of cinema: creating Soviet mass culture 1932-1936.

Joseph Stalin: power and ideas (2005)
Book Chapter
Davies, S., & Harris, J. (2005). Joseph Stalin: power and ideas. In S. Davies, & J. Harris (Eds.), Stalin : a new history (1-17). Cambridge University Press

The recent declassification of a substantial portion of Stalin's archive has made possible this fundamental new assessment of the controversial Soviet leader. Leading international experts accordingly challenge many assumptions about Stalin from his... Read More about Joseph Stalin: power and ideas.

Stalin and the making of the leader cult in the 1930s (2004)
Book Chapter
Davies, S. (2004). Stalin and the making of the leader cult in the 1930s. In B. Apor, J. Behrends, P. Jones, & E. Rees (Eds.), The leader cult in communist dictatorships : Stalin and the Eastern Bloc (29-46). Palgrave Macmillan