The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin

A Study in Twentieth-century Revolutionary Patriotism

Bibliographic Data

ID19903027
AuthorsErik Van Ree (0000-0002-9419-1594, corresponding author)
Year2003
Publication date2003-08-27
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePolitical Thought of Joseph Stalin (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203221631
OpenAlexW4246683338
Open LibraryOL33674381M
ISBN9780203221631
LanguageEN
Citations received18

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 margin notes, the book provides many insights on Stalin, and also on 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 thought in the French Revolution. It makes interesting comparisons between Stalin, Lenin, Bukharin and Trotsky, and explains a great deal about the mindset of those brought up in the Stalinist era, and about the 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

Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Philosophy · 1917-1991 · 1936-1953 · Communism & Socialism · Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) · joseph Stalin (1879-1953) · Political and social views · Political Ideologies · politics and government · Politieke filosofie · Soviet Union

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