Volume 48, Number 19 · November 29, 2001

In the Promised Land

By Aileen Kelly
Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War
by Jeffrey Brooks

Princeton University Press, 319 pp., $45.00; $19.95 (paper)

Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents
by Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov

Yale University Press, 460 pp., $35.00

'Great massacres may be commanded by tyrants, but they are imposed by peoples,' H.R. Trevor-Roper wrote on the European witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.



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