1 For recent, complementary works see especially David Brandenberger, Propaganda State in Crisis: Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror Under Stalin, 1927-1941 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011); Jochen Hellbeck, “The Diaries of Fritzes and the Letters of Gretchens: Personal Writings from the German-Soviet War and Their Readers,” Kritika 10:3 (Summer 2009); Jan Plamper, The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012); and, on the home front in Central Asia, Rebecca Manley, To the Tashkent Station: Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009).Google Scholar