The Stalinist Legacy: Its Impact on Twentieth Century World Politics (Pelican)

Twenty years after the Soviet Union's collapse activists are still confronted by the legacy of Stalinism. This volume aims to deepen our understanding of the origins, impacts, and enduring prominence of Stalinism, so as to help exorcise these ghosts of the past. Featuring essays by Tariq Ali, Ernest Mandel, Isaac Deutscher, and many others. Foreword to the Second Edition Preface Introduction / by Tariq Ali Part 1. The roots of the problem 1. Socialist relations in the Soviet Union / Leon Trotsky 2. The "professional dangers" of power / Christian Rakovsky 3. What is the bureaucracy? / Ernest Mandel 4. "Socialism in one country" / Isaac Deutscher 5. Marxism and primitive magic / Isaac Deutscher 6. Trotsky's interpretation of Stalinism / Perry Anderson 7. Was Lenin a Stalinist? / Marcel Liebman 8. Stalinist ideology and science / Michael Löwy Part 2. Stalinism in crisis 9. The Trotskyists in Vorkuta prison camp / "M.B." 10. Stalin and the Second World War / Fernando Claudin 11. The first breach: the excommunication of Yugoslavia / Josip Broz Tito, et al. 12. Secret report to the 20th Party Congress of the CPSU / Nikita S. Khrushchev 13. Maoism, Stalinism and the Chinese revolution / Roland Lew 14. The peculiarities of Vietnamese communism / Pierre Rousset 15. The tragedy of Indian communism / K. Damodaran 16. Hungary 1956: a participant's 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 Yevtushenko. Tariq Ali, Isaac Deutscher, Ernest Mandel, and others analyze the nature of Stalinism, and its continuing impact on world politics.