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Title Stalinism : essays in historical interpretation / edited by Robert C. Tucker ; with contributions by Wlodzimierz Brus ... [and others]
Edition First edition
Published New York : Norton, [1977]
©1977

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Description xx, 332 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction. Stalinism and comparative communism / Robert C. Tucker -- Part I. Old and new approaches: Bolshevism and Stalinism; Trotskyist interpretations of Stalinism; Stalinism and the mono-organizational society; Stalinism as revolution from above -- Part II. Dimensions of Stalinism in Russia: The social background of Stalinism; Stalinism and Marxian growth models; Stalinism and Soviet legal culture; Utopian anthropology as a context for Stalinist literature; New pages from the political biography of Stalin -- Part III. Stalinism in Eastern Europe: Stalinism and the "people's democracies"; Stalinism and Czechoslovak political culture -- Part IV. Stalinism versus Marxism?: Marxist roots of Stalinism; Stalinism and Marxism -- Conclusion. Some questions on the scholarly agenda / Robert C. Tucker
Notes 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Communism -- Soviet Union -- History -- Congresses.
Communism -- Soviet Union -- History.
Author Brus, Włodzimierz.
Tucker, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1918-2010.
American Council of Learned Societies. Planning Group on Comparative Communist Studies.
LC no. 76056110
ISBN 0393056082