Robert C Tucker
Biographic Data
| ID | 978128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert C Tucker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert C |
| FAMILY NAME | Tucker |
| SIGNATURE | TUCKER R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 83 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 228 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 83 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Marxian Revolutionary Idea
Like many another powerful teaching that becomes the ideology of movements carried on in its name and dedicated to its realization, Marxism has not always reflected its original inspiration. Marxism was born of this fusion in an intellectual process recorded in Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, whose publication in the present century presaged a new era in Marxian scholarship in the West. In a basic sense, revolution was the ma…
The Theory of Charismatic Leadership
In a recent survey of Max Weber's political ideas, Karl Loewenstein observes that the concepts of "charisma" and the "charismatic leader" have had the greatest impact upon the thinking of recent time. Some writers are impressed with its power or potentiality as a tool for analyzing certain leadership situations of the historical past and present; others are skeptical and doubt whether the idea of charismatic leadership has much place in political…
Philosophy & Myth in Karl Marx
In Karl Marx's early writing (first made available many years after his death) his economic interpretation of history and his concept of communism were set in a comprehensive philosophical framework. Marx's main preoccupation at this time was with man estranged from himself in an alienated world: a subjective, almost religious theme.Taking full account of these earlier writings, Robert Tucker critiques and reinterprets Marx's thought. He shows ho…
The Cold War in Stalin's Time
Journal Article The Cold War in Stalin's Time: What the New Sources Reveal Get access Robert C. Tucker Robert C. Tucker Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 21, Issue 2, April 1997, Pages 273–281, https://doi.org/10.1111/0145-2096.00069 Published: 17 December 2002
A field experiment for studying race relations embedded in organizations
When social scientists conduct research in organizations, they engage in relationships with respondents in order to obtain information. For studies of race relations in organizations, questions arise about how researchers take account of their organizational and racial group memberships. This field experiment tests hypotheses derived from embedded intergroup relations theory about the effects of questionnaire administration procedures and race of…
Sovietology and Russian History
On the "Letter of an Old Bolshevik" as an Historical Document
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Stalin in Power
This book forms the second volume of Tucker's biography of Stalin, the first volume of which, as Revolutionary, was recently reissued by Norton in the United Kingdom. Robert Tucker shows that Stalin was a Bolshevik of the radical right whose cast the country deep into its imperial, autocratic past. In 1929 Stalin plunged Soviet Russia into a coercive revolution from above, a decade long effort to amass military-industrial power for a new war. He …
Introduction
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Political Culture and Leadership in Soviet Russia-From Lenin to Gorbachev
Political Culture and Leadership in Soviet Russia
Political Culture and Leadership in Soviet Russia
The Stalin Period as an Historical Problem
Since I was a discussant of Sheila Fitzpatrick's spirited brief for a newer social history when she first presented it in 1985, and since I read the revised version and the comments upon it published in the Russian Review with interest, I am pleased to offer my own comments here. They derive my long trek through the Stalinist 1930s while writing Stalin's Revolution Above: An Interpretive History, which, I am glad to say, is nearing completion. Fi…
Politics as Leadership
Robert C. Tucker begins this invaluable book with an analytical look at politics, leadership, and the effect each has on the other. Aligning himself with Plato's view of politics as leadership, Tucker argues that politics is more usefully defined from this perspective than from the more familiar stance of the exercise of power. He maintains leaders must define collective problems, prescribe actions or policies, and finally seek support for their …
Problems of Interpretation
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A Case of Mistaken Identity
The concept of self-identity has developed from Freud through Erik Erikson's work and that of Karen Horney, Daniel Levinson and others, and is an important tool for a biographer. The contributions of these thinkers are illustrated by the example of Stalin, which shows the need for a concept of psychological "mistaken identity" that is contained in the psychological thought of Karen Horney
Swollen State, Spent Society
Communism and Russia
Stalinism
On Matters Evidential
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Personality and Political Leadership
Journal Article Personality and Political Leadership Get access Robert C. Tucker Robert C. Tucker ROBERT C. TUCKER is professor of politics at Princeton University. He is the author of Stalin As Revolutionary, The Soviet Political Mind, The Marxian Revolutionary Idea, and Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx, and the editor of numerous other volumes. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly,…
The Emergence of Stalin's Foreign Policy
To understand Stalin as a political thinker, we must see him as a man whose thinking was strongly influenced by perceived parallels between present and past. Unlike other Bolsheviks, he found a parallel between Russia's internal situation in relatively tranquil 1925 and on the eve of the October upheaval of 1917. He thrice stated in party forums during 1925 that the present international situation resembled the prelude of the World War's outbreak…
The Georges' Wilson Reexamined
Psychobiography interprets a life-course in terms of a consciously thought-out interpretation of the subject's personality. There are criteria for judging the relative merit of differing lines of interpretation. The Georges' Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House, rightly recognized as a psychobiographical classic, proceeds from Harold Lasswell's formula for "political man" as one who seeks power to overcome a low self-estimate. The formula is in some …
The Lenin Anthology
Communication
Stalin in Power
This book forms the second volume of Tucker's biography of Stalin, the first volume of which, as Revolutionary, was recently reissued by Norton in the United Kingdom. Robert Tucker shows that Stalin was a Bolshevik of the radical right whose cast the country deep into its imperial, autocratic past. In 1929 Stalin plunged Soviet Russia into a coercive revolution from above, a decade long effort to amass military-industrial power for a new war. He …
The Dictator and Totalitarianism
Significantly, we have few if any studies of the totalitarian O dictator as a personality type. It may be that we are little closer to a working psychological model of him than Plato took us with his brilliant sketch of the ideal type of the “tyrant” in The Republic. The contemporary literature on totalitarianism does, of course, contain materials that are relevant to the problem of characterization of the totalitarian dictator. Yet no frontal at…
The Deradicalization of Marxist Movements
Marxism-Leninism, as the Soviet Marxist ideology is called, has never been wholly static; it has evolved over the years by a process of accretion, elimination and redefinition of dogma. But in the first post-Stalin decade, there were changes of unusual scope and significance in this sphere, accompanying and in some ways mirroring the general processes of systemic change which Stalin's death precipitated in Soviet society. This paper seeks to inte…
Stalinism
Stalin as Revolutionary, 1879-1929
This towering figure of the twentieth century has hitherto lacked a successful and full-scale biography. The publication of this first volume of a projected trilogy by Robert Tucker marks the beginning of the end of this situation. -Robert H. McNeal, Russian Review
Political Culture and Leadership in Soviet Russia-From Lenin to Gorbachev
Sovietology and Russian History
On the Comparative Study of Communism
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Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx
The Lenin Anthology
The Marxian Revolutionary Idea
Towards a Comparative Politics of Movement-Regimes
Those who specialize in the study of Soviet government and politics are beginning to feel and acknowledge the need for a more effective theoretical apparatus. The post-war years of expanded research in this field have been fruitful in empirical studies of Soviet political history and institutions, but the theoretical development has not kept pace; and now the lag is beginning to inhibit the further fruitful progress of empirical research itself. …
The Marxian Revolutionary Idea
Political Culture and Leadership in Soviet Russia
The Emergence of Stalin's Foreign Policy
To understand Stalin as a political thinker, we must see him as a man whose thinking was strongly influenced by perceived parallels between present and past. Unlike other Bolsheviks, he found a parallel between Russia's internal situation in relatively tranquil 1925 and on the eve of the October upheaval of 1917. He thrice stated in party forums during 1925 that the present international situation resembled the prelude of the World War's outbreak…
The Great Purge Trial
Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx
Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx
Russia, the West, and World Order
There is a feeling abroad today that Western civilization is on trial before history. One of the clearest signs of it is the increasing frequency with which we hear the word “challenge” in connection with the policies and progress of Soviet Russia and the Communist world at large. The challenge of the sputniks, of Soviet science and education, of Soviet economic development—these phrases, and variations on them, have recently grown all too famili…
The Politics of Soviet De-Stalinization
A Review of the political situation in post-Stalin Russia may well begin with a reflection on its historical uniqueness. Stalin, who sponsored the “Russia first” theme in Soviet propaganda, established a real and momentous “first” for Russia by his own death. Never before had a totalitarian dictator of one of the world powers died, or been put to death, before his totalitarian system collapsed, or came near collapse, in war. Hitler and Mussolini,…
Stalin and the Uses of Psychology
THE influence of ideological conceptions upon the men who make Soviet policy has been frequently and rightly emphasized. Some observers are so deeply impressed by this influence that they tend to regard the Soviet system as a kind of ideocracy. It is undeniable that ideology has been one powerful factor in the shaping of Soviet policies and actions from the time of the October Revolution to the present. But one must not lose sight of the fact tha…
Political Culture and Leadership in Soviet Russia
Problems of Interpretation
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Swollen State, Spent Society
Personality and Political Leadership
Journal Article Personality and Political Leadership Get access Robert C. Tucker Robert C. Tucker ROBERT C. TUCKER is professor of politics at Princeton University. He is the author of Stalin As Revolutionary, The Soviet Political Mind, The Marxian Revolutionary Idea, and Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx, and the editor of numerous other volumes. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly,…
The Metamorphosis of the Stalin Myth
THE death of Joseph Stalin marked the beginning of a new period in the history of the Soviet regime in Russia. It set in motion a train of events in the internal political life of the country which, for better or for worse, will alter the political personality of the Soviet regime as the world came to know it under the influence of Stalin's dominating figure. No one can yet predict with any confidence how this sequence of events will unfold in th…
Stalin and the Uses of Psychology
THE influence of ideological conceptions upon the men who make Soviet policy has been frequently and rightly emphasized. Some observers are so deeply impressed by this influence that they tend to regard the Soviet system as a kind of ideocracy. It is undeniable that ideology has been one powerful factor in the shaping of Soviet policies and actions from the time of the October Revolution to the present. But one must not lose sight of the fact tha…
The Cunning of Reason in Hegel and Marx
According to Hegel, universal history is the realization of the Idea of Reason in a succession of National Spirits. These are manifested in the deeds of heroes, or world-historical individuals, such as Alexander the Great, Caesar, and Napoleon. However, the Idea of Reason does not work itself out in history in a manner which would seem reasonable on the surface. It is not actualized in this or that of its stages as a consequence of men consciousl…
The Politics of Soviet De-Stalinization
A Review of the political situation in post-Stalin Russia may well begin with a reflection on its historical uniqueness. Stalin, who sponsored the “Russia first” theme in Soviet propaganda, established a real and momentous “first” for Russia by his own death. Never before had a totalitarian dictator of one of the world powers died, or been put to death, before his totalitarian system collapsed, or came near collapse, in war. Hitler and Mussolini,…
Leninism
Dialectical Materialism
Biographic Dictionary of the USSR
Party and Church in the Soviet Union -- Travel Notes
Russia, the West, and World Order
There is a feeling abroad today that Western civilization is on trial before history. One of the clearest signs of it is the increasing frequency with which we hear the word “challenge” in connection with the policies and progress of Soviet Russia and the Communist world at large. The challenge of the sputniks, of Soviet science and education, of Soviet economic development—these phrases, and variations on them, have recently grown all too famili…
Communism on the Decline
In the Name of Conscience
Thirteen Days That Shook the Kremlin
Collectivization of Agriculture in Eastern Europe
The Secret World
Lenin and World Revolution
The Soviet Image of Future War
You Are All Alone
Current Soviet Policies, III
Stalin and the Soviet Communist Party
On Understanding Russia
The Mind of an Assassin
A World without Jews
The Soviet Citizen
My Thirty-Third Year
Stalin
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