''The Stalinist Legacy: Its Impact on 20th-Century World Politics'' is a 1984 book of various authors organized by Pakistani-British author, activist, historian Tariq Ali. The book features articles composed by prominent Anti-Stalinist socialists Isaac Deutscher and Ernest Mandel, Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Communist bloc leaders

Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev s ...

Josip Tito Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; sh-Cyrl, Тито, links=no, ), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various positions from 1943 until his death ...

and

Leon Trotsky Lev Davidovich Bronstein. ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky; uk, link= no, Лев Давидович Троцький; also transliterated ''Lyev'', ''Trotski'', ''Trotskij'', ''Trockij'' and ''Trotzky''. (), was a Russian ...

Synopsis

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 activists are still haunted by the legacy of

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...

. The book examines of the origins, impacts, and prominence of

Stalinism Stalinism is the means of governing and Marxist-Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1953 by Joseph Stalin. It included the creation of a one-party totalitarian police state, rapid industrialization, the theory ...

in modern Russia.

Content

Part 1: The Roots of the Problem

1. "Social Relations in the Soviet Union" -

2. "The 'Professional Dangers' of Power -

Christian Rakovsky Christian Georgievich Rakovsky (russian: Христиа́н Гео́ргиевич Рако́вский; bg, Кръстьо Георги́ев Рако́вски; – September 11, 1941) was a Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevi ...

3. "What is Bureaucracy?" - Ernest Mandel 4. "Socialism in One Country" - Isaac Deutscher 5. "Marxism and Primitive Magic - ibid. 6. "Trotsky's Interpretation of Stalinism" -

Perry Anderson Francis Rory Peregrine "Perry" Anderson (born 11 September 1938) is a British intellectual, historian and essayist. His work ranges across historical sociology, intellectual history, and cultural analysis. What unites Anderson's work is a preoc ...

7. "Was Lenin a Stalinist?" -

Marcel Liebman Marcel Liebman (7 July 1929 – 1 March 1986) was a Belgian Marxist historian of political sociology and theory, active at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Life A historian of socialism and of communism, he p ...

8. "Stalinist Ideology and Science" -

Michael Lowy Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian an ...

Part 2:Stalinism in Crisis

9. "The Trotskyisys in Vorkuta Prison Camp" 10. "Stalin and the Second World War" - Fernando Claudin 11. "The First Breach: The Excommunication of Yugoslavia" -

12. "Secret Report to the 20th Party Congress of the CPSU" -

13. "Maoism, Stalinism, and the Chinese Revolution" - Roland Law 14. "The Peculiarities of Vietnamese Communism" -

Pierre Rousset Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

15. "The Tradgedy of Indian Communism" - K. Damodaran 16. "Hungary 1956: A Participants Account" - Nicholas Krasso 17. "How They Crushed the Prague Spring of 1968" - Josef Smrkovsky 18. "The Political Culture of Hoxha's Albania" - Arshi Pipa 19. "The Polish Vortex: Solidarity and Socialism" - Oliver MacDonald 20. " Solzhenitsyn: The Witness and the Prophet" - Daniel Singer Epilogue: "The Heirs of Stalin" - Yevgeni Yevtushenk

Reception

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stalinist Legacy Books critical of capitalism History books about the Soviet Union Books about Marxism Books by Tariq Ali Trotskyism 1984 non-fiction books Books about Joseph Stalin Books about the Soviet Union English-language books Cultural depictions of Josip Broz Tito Works by Leon Trotsky Books about Trotskyism