edited by Robert C. Tucker ; with contributions by Wlodzimierz Brus ... [et al.].
1st ed.
New York, NY :
Norton,
c1977.
xx, 332 p. ;
25 cm.
Based on papers presented at a conference on "Stalinism and Communist political culture" held at Bellagio, Italy, July 25-31, 1975 and sponsored by the Planning Group on Comparative Communist Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Introduction: Stalinism and comparative communism / Robert C Tucker -- 1: Old and new approaches: Bolshevism and Stalinism / Stephen F Cohen -- Trotskyist interpretations of Stalinism / Robert H McNeal -- Stalinism and the mono-organizational society / TH Rigby -- Stalinism as revolution from above / Robert C Tucker --- 2: Dimensions of Stalinism in Russia: the social background of Stalinism / Moshr Lewin -- Stalinism and Marxian growth models / Alexander Erlich -- Stalinism and Soviet legal culture / Robert Sharlet -- Utopian anthropology as a context for Stalinist literature / Katerina Clark -- New pages from the political biography of Stalin / Roy A Medvedev -- 3: Stalinism in Eastern Europe: Stalinism and the "people's democracies" / Włodzimierz Brus -- Stalinism and Czechoslovak political culture / H Gordon Skilling -- 4: Stalinism versus Marxism?: Marxist roots of Stalinism / Leszek Kolakowski -- Stalinism and Marxism / Mihailo Markovic -- Conclusion: Some questions on the scholarly agend / Robert C Tucker -- Contributors -- Index.
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Product Description: In the years since Stalin's death, his profound influence upon the historical development of Communism has remained elusive and in need of interpretation. Stalinism, as his system has become known, is a phenomenon that embraced all facets of political and social life. While its effect upon Russia and other nations today is far less than it was while Stalin lived, it is by no means dead.
Essays in historical interpretation
Communism-- Soviet Union-- History, Congresses.
HX313
.
S683
1977
Brus, Włodzimierz.
Tucker, Robert C., (Robert Charles),1918-2010.
American Council of Learned Societies., Planning Group on Comparative Communist Studies.