Jacobinism -- Marxism, Leninism and the state -- Proletarian revolution in a backward country -- Marxist nationalism -- Stalin : the years before October -- The years under Lenin -- Socialism in one country -- Stalin's economic thought -- The sharpening of the class struggle -- Total unity -- Stalin and the state -- The cult of personality -- Stalin on society, culture and science -- Socialist in content, national in form -- Did stalin "betray the world revolution?" -- Revolutionary patriotism -- The philosophy of revolutionary patriotism
Summary
This study of Stalin's political thought makes full use of documentation that has only recently become available from the former Central Party Archive in Moscow as well as Stalin's private library with his handwritten marginal notes
Notes
Originally published 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-358) and index
