Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend

Note: the translation was done using the Portuguese edition of the book, often consulting the Spanish edition, not the original Italian edition. Introduction: The Turning Point in the Historical Depiction of Stalin 1. How to Cast a God into Hell: The Khrushchev Report 2. The Bolsheviks: From Ideological Conflict to Civil War 3. Between the Twentieth Century and The Longue Durée, from the History of Marxism to the History of Russia: the Origins of "Stalinism" 4. The Complex and Contradictory Course of the Stalin Era 5. The Distortion of History and the Construction of a Mythology: Stalin and Hitler as Twin Monsters 6. Psychopathology, Morality, and History in the Reading of the Stalin Era 7. The Depiction of Stalin between History and Mythology 8. Demonization and Hagiography in the Reading of the Contemporary World