Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of StalinismColumbia University Press, 1989 - 903 pagina's The most comprehensive and revealing investigation of Stalinism and political developments in the Soviet Union from 1922-1953, this edition is an extensively revised and expanded version of a classic work. The internationally known historian Roy Medvedev has included more than one-hundred new interviews, unpublished memoirs, and archives from survivors of Stalin's death camps. This updated version of a classic work was written during a time of great change in the Soviet Union. With the advent of perestroika and glasnost, more progressive leadership has sought to demolish the Stalinist system which had finally crippled the Soviet Union and incited public discontent. Let History Judge contains new material on purges in 1929-1931 and terror against the peasantry; the Kirov assasination and show trials; the "great terror" from 1936-1938, which caused irreparable damage to the Soviet Union and left it vulnerable for Hilter's attack in 1941; the trial of Bukharin; Trotsky's revolutionary activity and Stalin's involvement with his murder in Mexico; Stalin's miscalculations and errors during the war, which cost the Soviet Union nearly 25 million in casualties; new purges from 1946-1953; and the actual vote of the Seventeenth Congress, which decided Stalin's candidacy. Since the first edition was finished by the author in 1969 and published in 1971, dozens of new informants have come forward to give their evidence to Roy Medvedev. Distinguished Soviet literary, cultural, and political figures like the late Alexander Twardovsky, Ilja Ehrenburg, Konstantin Simonov, Yuri Trifono, Mikhail Romm and many others have accumulated documentary records of Stalinism in anticipation of an expanded version. |
Inhoudsopgave
Stalin as a Party Chief | 25 |
The Fight with the Opposition | 92 |
Mistakes and Crimes in Collectivization and Industrialization | 211 |
New Crimes by Stalin in the Early Thirties | 255 |
The Suicide of Nadezhda Alliluyeva | 298 |
Repression in the Social Sciences and Literature | 303 |
Stalins Policies in the International Working Class Movement | 307 |
Beginning of the Stalin Cult | 313 |
Other Causes of Mass Repression | 602 |
Conditions Facilitating Stalins Usurpation of Power | 614 |
The Absence of Glassnost and Freedom of Criticism | 623 |
The Domestic and International Situation | 628 |
Centralization and Length of Term in Office | 634 |
The Bolshevik Partys Political Monopoly | 638 |
Perversion of Lenins Concept of Party Unity | 649 |
Stalins Personal Control over the Agencies of Repression | 652 |
Bukharin in the Early Thirties | 319 |
Trotsky in the Early Thirties | 321 |
STALINS USURPATION OF POWER AND THE GREAT TERROR | 325 |
The Kirov Assassination and the Purge Trials | 327 |
The Kirov Assassination | 334 |
Repression in Early 1935 | 346 |
Repression Continues 19351936 | 348 |
The First Moscow Trial 1936 | 354 |
The Fall of Yagoda and Promotion of Yezhov | 358 |
Trial of the Parallel Center | 361 |
The FebruaryMarch Plenum of 1937 | 364 |
Trial of the AntiSoviet RightTrotskyite Bloc | 368 |
The Fraudulence of the Moscow Show Trials | 375 |
Mass Repression of Former Oppositionists | 383 |
Trotsky 19361940 | 389 |
The Assault on Party and State Cadres 19371938 | 395 |
The Assault on Cadres of the Central Party Government and Economic Institutions | 396 |
The Death of Sergo Ordzhonikidze | 399 |
The Death of Nadezhda Alliluyeva | 403 |
The Fate of Others Close to Lenin | 406 |
The Assault on Cadres in the Provinces and Union Republics | 409 |
Repression in the Trade Unions and Komsomol | 417 |
Destruction of the Cadres of the Red Army | 420 |
Repression in the NKVD the Courts and the Procuracy | 425 |
Repression of Comintern Activists and Members of NonSoviet Communist Parties | 430 |
Repression Among the Scientific and Technical Intelligentsia | 437 |
Rehabilitation and Repression 19381941 | 456 |
Illegal Methods of Investigation and Confinement | 485 |
PART 3 | 513 |
ITS NATURE AND CAUSES | 521 |
Ends and Means in the Socialist Revolution | 660 |
Incomprehension and Lack of Solidarity | 673 |
Bureaucratization and Degeneration | 685 |
Conservatism and Dogmatism in Some Revolutionary Cadres | 695 |
The Socialist State in Theory and Practice | 702 |
Lack of Effective Popular Control | 707 |
Insufficient Education Culture and Democratic Tradition | 711 |
PART 4 | 713 |
SOME CONSEQUENCES OF STALINS PERSONAL DICTATORSHIP | 721 |
Errors in Diplomacy and War | 723 |
War with Finland | 732 |
Stalins MilitaryStrategic Blunder of 1941 | 735 |
Stalin as Military Leader | 747 |
Repression During the War | 771 |
Crimes and Mistakes in the Postwar Period | 781 |
Repression in the Peoples Democracies | 791 |
Weakening of the WorkerPeasant Alliance | 797 |
Official AntiSemitism | 802 |
The Impact of Stalinism on Science and Art | 808 |
The Social Sciences | 809 |
The Belittling of Lenins Role | 815 |
Stalins Theoretical Legacy | 820 |
The Natural Sciences | 828 |
Art and Literature | 830 |
Socialism and Pseudosocialism | 836 |
Conclusion | 861 |
Glossary | 875 |
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Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1989 |
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