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The political thought of Joseph Stalin : a study in twentieth-century revolutionary patriotism

Author: Erik van Ree
Publisher: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the political thought of Joseph Stalin. Making full use of the documentation that has recently become available, including Stalin's private library with his handwritten marginal notes, the book provides many insights into Stalin and also into Western and Russian Marxist intellectual traditions. Overall, the book argues that Stalin's political thought is not primarily  Read more...
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Named Person: Joseph Stalin; Joseph Stalin; Iosif V Stalin
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Erik van Ree
ISBN: 0700717498 9780700717491
OCLC Number: 59421883
Description: ix, 366 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Jacobinism --
Marxism, Leninism and the state --
Proletarian revolution in a backward country --
Marxist nationalism --
Stalin : the years before October --
The years under Lenin --
Socialism in one country --
Stalin's economic thought --
The sharpening of the class struggle --
Total unity --
Stalin and the state --
The cult of personality --
Stalin on society, culture and science --
Socialist in content, national in form --
Did stalin "betray the world revolution?" --
Revolutionary patriotism --
The philosophy of revolutionary patriotism.
Responsibility: Erik van Ree.

Abstract:

"This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the political thought of Joseph Stalin. Making full use of the documentation that has recently become available, including Stalin's private library with his handwritten marginal notes, the book provides many insights into Stalin and also into Western and Russian Marxist intellectual traditions. Overall, the book 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 through revolutionary Marxism to Jacobin thoughts in the French Revolution. It makes interesting comparisons between Stalin, Lenin, Bukharin and Trotskii and explains a great deal about the Stalinist era's many key problems, including the industrial revolution from above, socialist cultural policy, Soviet treatment of nationalities, pre-war and Cold War foreign policy, and the purges."--BOOK JACKET.

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