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2013
Abstract If Stalin was the supremely powerful dictator of popular renown, then why did he feel the need to persecute so many Soviet citizens? This chapter draws on recently released archives, including Stalin’s personal papers, to reassess not only the leader’s fears and ambitions but also the nature of the Stalinist order.
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Abstract If Stalin was the supremely powerful dictator of popular renown, then why did he feel the need to persecute so many Soviet citizens? This chapter draws on recently released archives, including Stalin’s personal papers, to reassess not only the leader’s fears and ambitions but also the nature of the Stalinist order.
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Stalinism and De-Stalinization
2018By 1948, a full-fledged Stalinist dictatorship was introduced all over the region. Socialist realism became an official aesthetic ideology; in historiography, in most cases it was the national Romantic vision that was extolled as “progressive,” but there were also attempts to claim the progressive character of a strong central state power.
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Stalin and Stalinism: a review article
Europe-Asia Studies, 2004R. W. Davies, Oleg V. Khlevniuk & E. A. Rees (eds), The Stalin–Kaganovich Correspondence 1931–1936. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003, xviii+431 pp., £35.00 h/b. David L.
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Stalinism, Post-Stalinism, and Neo-Capitalism: To Be or Not to Be?
North Korean Review, 2008IntroductionAccording to North Korea historian Andrei Lankov, North Korea is no longer a Stalinist state, the old Stalinist society is dead, a "neo-capitalist" revolution is under-way, and the country is proceeding to a market-oriented system. This thesis is advanced in Lankov's Asia Times Online articles, such as "Cracks in North Korean 'Stalinism ...
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2020
The chapter explores how late Hollywood has mounted a defamatory political campaign against not only the authoritarianism of the former Soviet regime but the entire past of the “socialist bloc.” It argues that examples like The Death of Stalin (2017) and Comrade Detective (2017) condemn communist ideology a posteriori for the sole ...
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The chapter explores how late Hollywood has mounted a defamatory political campaign against not only the authoritarianism of the former Soviet regime but the entire past of the “socialist bloc.” It argues that examples like The Death of Stalin (2017) and Comrade Detective (2017) condemn communist ideology a posteriori for the sole ...
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Stalin and Stalinism in the Works of Zinoviev
1988Zinoviev’s most extensive treatment of Stalin and Stalinism is contained in his book Nashei yunosti polet (NYP), published in 1983. Clearly any discussion of Zinoviev’s views will have to take it into account. Yet it would be erroneous, in my opinion, to regard it as Zinoviev’s only word on the subject or to assume that Zinoviev, to the extent that he ...
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