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Twenty years after the Soviet Union's collapse activists are still confronted by the legacy of Stalinism. This volume aims to deepen our understanding of the origins, impacts, and enduring prominence of Stalinism, so as to help exorcise these ghosts of the past. Featuring essays by Tariq Ali, Ernest Mandel, Isaac Deutscher, and many others.
Price: $28.00
Pages: 560
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Publication Date:
30 April 2013
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781608462193
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Political ideologies and movements, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, HISTORY / Russia / General, General and world history, Political science and theory, European history
TARIQ ALI is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, and seven novels (translated into over a dozen languages) as well as scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of New Left Review and lives in London. His website is http://tariqali.org/.
Preface
Introduction to new edition
Introduction to the first edition
Part 1: The Roots of the Problem
1. Social relations in the Soviet Union - Leon Trotsky
2. The 'Professional Dangers' of Power - Christian Rakovsky
3. What is the Bureaucracy? - Ernest Mandel
4. 'Socialism in Once Country' - Isaac Deutscher
5. Marxism and Primitive Magic - Isaac Deutscher
6. Trotsky's Interpretation of Stalinism - Perry Anderson
7. Was Lenin a Stalinist? - Marcel Liebman
8. Stalinist Ideology and Science - Michael Löwy
Part 2: Stalinism in Crisis
9. The Trotskyists in Vorkuta Prison Camp - 'M.B.'
10. Stalin and the Second World War - Fernando Claudin
11. The First Breach: The Excommunication of Yugoslavia - Josip Broz Tito et al.
12. Secret Report to the 20th Party Congress of the CPSU - Nikita S. Krushchev
13. Maoism, Stalinism and the Chinese Revolution - Roland Lew
14. The Peculiarities of Vietnamese Communism - Pierre Rousset
15. The Tragedy of Indian Communism - K. Damodaran
16. Hungary 1956: A Participant's Account - Nicholas Krasso
17. How They Crushed the Prague Spring of 1968 - Josef Smrkovsky
18. The Political Culture of Hoxha' Albania - Arshi Pipa
19. The Polish Vortex: Solidarity and Socialism - Oliver MacDonald
20. Solzhenitsyn: The Witness and the Prophet - Daniel Singer
Epilogue: The Heirs of Stalin - Yevgeni Yevtushenko
Introduction to new edition
Introduction to the first edition
Part 1: The Roots of the Problem
1. Social relations in the Soviet Union - Leon Trotsky
2. The 'Professional Dangers' of Power - Christian Rakovsky
3. What is the Bureaucracy? - Ernest Mandel
4. 'Socialism in Once Country' - Isaac Deutscher
5. Marxism and Primitive Magic - Isaac Deutscher
6. Trotsky's Interpretation of Stalinism - Perry Anderson
7. Was Lenin a Stalinist? - Marcel Liebman
8. Stalinist Ideology and Science - Michael Löwy
Part 2: Stalinism in Crisis
9. The Trotskyists in Vorkuta Prison Camp - 'M.B.'
10. Stalin and the Second World War - Fernando Claudin
11. The First Breach: The Excommunication of Yugoslavia - Josip Broz Tito et al.
12. Secret Report to the 20th Party Congress of the CPSU - Nikita S. Krushchev
13. Maoism, Stalinism and the Chinese Revolution - Roland Lew
14. The Peculiarities of Vietnamese Communism - Pierre Rousset
15. The Tragedy of Indian Communism - K. Damodaran
16. Hungary 1956: A Participant's Account - Nicholas Krasso
17. How They Crushed the Prague Spring of 1968 - Josef Smrkovsky
18. The Political Culture of Hoxha' Albania - Arshi Pipa
19. The Polish Vortex: Solidarity and Socialism - Oliver MacDonald
20. Solzhenitsyn: The Witness and the Prophet - Daniel Singer
Epilogue: The Heirs of Stalin - Yevgeni Yevtushenko