The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin : A Study in Twentieth Century Revolutionary Patriotism

ISBN-13: 9780700717491 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 384 str.

Erik Van Ree; Erik Van Ree; Van Ree Erik

Opis

This work presents a comprehensive analysis of the political thought of Joseph Stalin. It argues that Stalin's political thought is not primarily indebted to the Russian autocratic tradition, but belongs to a tradition of revolutionary patriotism that stretches back to the Jacobins.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Jacobinism 2. Marxism, Leninism and the State 3. Proletarian revolution in a backward country 4. Marxist nationalism 5. Stalin. The years before October 6. The years under Lenin 7. Socialism in one country 8. Stalinist economics 9. The sharpening of the class struggle 10. Total unity 11. Stalin and the state 12. The cult of personality 13. Stalin on society, culture and science 14. Socialist in content, national in form 15. Did Stalin 'betray' the world revolution? 16. Revolutionary patriotism 17. The philosophy of revolutionary patriotism Conclusion Bibliography

O autorze

Erik van Ree is a lecturer at the Institute for East European Studies of the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on the history of the USSR and on world communism, including books on Stalin's Korean Policy, and on the Soviet Politburo.