The Stalinist Legacy
 First edition | |
| Author | Tariq Ali |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Nonfiction |
| Genre | Marxism, Influence of Stalinism |
| Publisher | Pelican Books |
Publication date | 1984 |
| Publication place | The United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 978-0-931477-56-0 |
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, Josip Tito and Leon Trotsky.[1]
Synopsis
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 activists are still haunted by the legacy of Joseph Stalin. The book examines of the origins, impacts, and prominence of Stalinism in modern Russia.[2]
Content
Part 1: The Roots of the Problem
1. "Social Relations in the Soviet Union" - Leon Trotsky
2. "The 'Professional Dangers' of Power - Christian Rakovsky
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
7. "Was Lenin a Stalinist?" - Marcel Liebman
8. "Stalinist Ideology and Science" - Michael Lowy
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" - Josip Tito
12. "Secret Report to the 20th Party Congress of the CPSU" - Nikita Khrushchev
13. "Maoism, Stalinism, and the Chinese Revolution" - Roland Law
14. "The Peculiarities of Vietnamese Communism" - Pierre Rousset
15. "The Tragedy 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" - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Reception
References
- ^ Ali, Tariq; Deutscher, Isaac; Trotsky, Leon; Tito, Josip; Mandel, Ernest; Krushchev, Nikita (1984). The Stalinist Legacy. Chicago, Illinois: Pelican Books. ISBN 978-0-931477-56-0.
- ^ Ali, Tariq (2013). The Stalinist Legacy: Its Impact on Twentieth Century World Politics. Haymarket Books. ISBN 978-1608462193.
- ^ Flewers, Paul. "Review: Tariq Ali, The Stalinist Legacy". Retrieved 8 January 2019.