Download or read book Bolshevism Stalinism and the Comintern written by N. LaPorte and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-07-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading authorities and cutting edge scholars, this collection re-examines the defining concepts of Stalinism and the Stalinization odel. The aim of the book is to explore how the common imperatives of a centralized movement were experienced across national boundaries.
Download or read book The Comintern written by Jeremy Agnew and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-10-25 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible text provides a comprehensive narrative and interpretative account of the entire history of the Communist International, 1919-1943. By incorporating the most recent Western and Soviet research the authors explain the legendary complexities of Comintern history and chart its degeneration from a revolutionary internationalist organisation into an obedient instrument of Soviet foreign policy. Key themes include: continuities and discontinuities between the Leninist and Stalinist phases, Bolshevisation versus national traditions, and the role of leading individuals in the Comintern apparatus. A selection of documents will elucidate these central themes.
Download or read book Stalinism and Bolshevism written by Leon Trotsky and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Redefining Stalinism written by Harold Shukman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1879 in Georgia, Stalin joined the Bolsheviks under Lenin in 1903 and became General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1922. These edited papers reassess the deeds, policies and legacy of a man who was responsible for innumerable deaths and untold human misery.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia written by Robert V. Daniels and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished historian of the Soviet period Robert V. Daniels offers a penetrating survey of the evolution of the Soviet system and its ideology. In a tightly woven series of analyses written during his career-long inquiry into the Soviet Union, Daniels explores the Soviet experience from Karl Marx to Boris Yeltsin and shows how key ideological notions were altered as Soviet history unfolded. The book exposes a long history of American misunderstanding of the Soviet Union, leading up to the "grand surprise" of its collapse in 1991. Daniels's perspective is always original, and his assessments, some worked out years ago, are strikingly prescient in the light of post-1991 archival revelations. Soviet Communism evolved and decayed over the decades, Daniels argues, through a prolonged revolutionary process, combined with the challenges of modernization and the personal struggles between ideologues and power-grabbers.
Download or read book Stalin s Terror of 1937 1938 written by Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin and published by Mehring Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the bloodiest period of the Stalinist repression of political opposition in the Soviet Union, debunking the myth that the Great Purges were merely the product of Stalin's paranoia and had no overriding political logic. Through a meticulous examination of original sources, including archival documents only made available for research in the 1990s, Professor Vadim Rogovin argues that the ferocity of the mass repression was directly proportional to the intensity of resistance to Stalin within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), particularly the opposition inspired by and associated with the exiled Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky. Far from Trotsky being a politically isolated figure, as both Stalinist and anti-communist historians have claimed, there was substantial sympathy for his criticism of the Stalin regime in the ranks and even in the leadership of the CPSU, and support for his demands for inner-party democracy, greater social equality and an international orientation to the Bolshevik goal of world revolution. It was this political fact, as Rogovin demonstrates, that accounts for the purge reaching so deeply into the party apparatus, the military, the Komsomol youth movement, and the broader layers of the population. Rogovin bases his analysis on scrupulous research, quoting from newly translated or unpublished documents, including memoirs, meeting minutes, newspaper articles and trial transcripts. He documents the reaction of different social layers to the purges, including workers, peasants, non-party intellectuals and the CPSU rank-and-file. This book includes rarely published photographs of the prison camps, documenting the lives of those labeled by Stalin;enemies of the people. Chronologically, this volume takes up where its predecessor, 1937: Stalin's Year of Terror , left off, with the June 1937 plenum of the Central Committee that followed the purging of the Soviet military command and the execution of Marshal Tukhachevsky and other leading generals. It analyzes such critical events as the Bukharin-Rykov trial, last of the infamous show trials; the massacre of Trotskyists in the Vorkuta slave-labor camp; and the assassination by Stalinist agents of Leon Sedov, Trotsky's son, and other oppositionists outside the Soviet Union. It concludes with an examination of how the purges transformed the CPSU and Soviet society as a whole.
Download or read book Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization written by David Priestland and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization' provides a new explanation of the political violence in Stalin's Soviet Union during the late 1930s by examining the thinking of Stalin and his allies, and placing it in the broader context of Bolshevik ideas since 1917.
Download or read book The Red Decade written by Eugene Lyons and published by Colchis Books. This book was released on with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Red Decade: Stalinism in 1930s America, Eugene Lyons offers a compelling account of the influence of Stalinism on American politics and culture during the 1930s. Lyons, a former communist turned anti-communist, provides a unique perspective on the ways in which the Soviet Union's ideology and propaganda infiltrated various aspects of American society, from the arts and literature to labor unions and political organizations. While the book was originally published in 1941, its insights remain relevant today as a cautionary tale about the dangers of totalitarian ideologies and the importance of defending democratic values.
Download or read book Stalin written by Boris Souvarine and published by Octagon Press, Limited. This book was released on 1972 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boris Konstantinovich Lifschitz 'Souvarine' was born in in 1895 in Kiev to a Jewish family. His family moved to Paris in 1897. He came into contact with the French Socialist movement while working as an apprentice jeweler. But World War I and his experiences in the French army turned him toward politics and the pacifist movement. His talents at a writer developed during the war years and he began signing his articles with a new name: Souvarine. He supported the November 1917 Russian Revolution and being bilingual he helped to write about those events for French socialists. He hoped that Communist and Socialist Parties could together create a proletarian democracy in Russia. And feared a dictatorship of the Bolsheviks and their leader. He became an executive member of the Comintern, but by 1924 he was removed from the his official roles and expelled from the Comintern. In France Souvarine participated in a variety of organizations and journals of the anti Stalinist left. In the 1920s he also had growing differences with Trotsky, who described him as a journalist and not a revolutionary. In 1935 he published his book on Stalin, Staline, aperçu historique du bolchévisme .He also criticized Lenin. His criticisms of Stalinism were important sources for some less orthodox Trotskyists, such as C.L.R. James, who translated his book Stalin into English.--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Bolshevism written by Waldemar Gurian and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stalin and German Communism written by Ruth Fischer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through her long involvement in the German Communist party, Ruth Fischer amassed valuable material on its changing fortunes, the transformation of the Bolshevik party into a totalitarian dictatorship, and the degeneration of the Comintern. Drawing on this material and on her own vivid recollections, Fischer reconstructs the history of the German Communist party from 1918 to 1929. First published in 1948, this fundamental work opened up the study of the inner organizational life of a major revolutionary movement. In his introduction to the Social Science Classics edition, John Leggett reviews and summarizes the social, political, and economic issues and events that precipitated the revolution and those factors that contributed to its failure.
Download or read book A Study of Bolshevism written by Nathan Leites and published by Glencoe, Ill. : Free Press. This book was released on 1953 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitle on dust jacket: an analysis of Soviet writings to find a set of rules governing Communist political strategy.
Download or read book Stalin In Power written by Robert C Tucker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992-05-05 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the motivations, personality, and actions of the man under whose rulership millions of Russians perished.
Download or read book Leninism or trotskyism written by G. E. Zinoviev and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1925 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stalin and German Communism written by Ruth (Politikerin Fischer and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through her long involvement in the German Communist party, Ruth Fischer amassed valuable material on its changing fortunes, the transformation of the Bolshevik party into a totalitarian dictatorship, and the degeneration of the Comintern. Drawing on this material and on her own vivid recollections, Fischer reconstructs the history of the German Communist party from 1918 to 1929. First published in 1948, this fundamental work opened up the study of the inner organizational life of a major revolutionary movement. In his introduction to the Social Science Classics edition, John Leggett reviews and summarizes the social, political, and economic issues and events that precipitated the revolution and those factors that contributed to its failure.
Download or read book The Collapse of Communism in the USSR written by Doug Lorimer and published by Resistance Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politics and Society under the Bolsheviks written by Kevin McDermott and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between society and the regime has been central to much recent research in the field of Soviet history. In this book, an international team of scholars investigates this theme in the revolutionary period, and in the Stalin years from the 1920s to the 1940s, with an additional section on the Bolshevik's relations with the outside world via the Communist International based in Moscow. The use of fresh archival materials provides challenging new interpretations and insights.
