Part one : Stalin looks at the world -- The foundations of Stalinism -- Stalin speaks -- Stalinism and "transformism" / Robert C. Tucker -- Part two : The world looks at Stalin -- Doing business with Stalin -- Points of view -- The cult of personality and its consequences -- Part three : Stalin in history -- "A great agent of history" / E.H. Carr -- Trotsky's interpretation of Stalin / Robert H. McNeal -- "A twentieth-century Ivan the Terrible" / Robert C. Tucker -- "Criminality enthroned" / George F. Kennan -- Afterword Stalin known and unknown