Let history judge : the origins and consequences of Stalinism
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Let history judge : the origins and consequences of Stalinism
Oxford University Press, 1989
Rev. and expanded ed. / edited and translated by George Shriver
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Soviet historian, Medvedev, has updated his book which was first published in 1969, to include information amassed from personal inteviews, memoirs and archive material on certain events of the period, such as the 1929-32 purges, the Kirov assassination, the trial of Bukharin, Trotsky's revolutionary activity and Stalin's involvement with his murder, Stalin's mistakes during the war, new purges from 1946-53 and the vote of the 17th Congress which decided Stalin's candidacy. The new introduction discusses the treatment of Stalin and Stalinism in the USSR under Gorbachev.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Stalin's rise in the party: Stalin as a party chief
- the fight with the opposition
- mistakes and crimes in collectivization and industrialization
- new crimes by Stalin in the early 1930's. Part 2 Stalin's usurpation of power, and the great terror: the Kirov assassination and the purge trials
- the assault on party and state cadras, 1937-1938
- rehabilitation and repression, 1938-1941
- illegal methods of investigation and confinement. Part 3 Stalinism - its nature and causes: the problem of Stalin's responsibility
- other causes of mass repression
- conditions facilitating Stalin's usurpation of power. Part 4 Some consequences of Stalin's personal dictatorship: errors in diplomacy and war
- crimes and mistakes in the postwar period
- the impact of Stalinism on science and art
- socialism and pseudosocialism.
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