Staline et la question des voies de passage au socialisme

AbstractThe author seeks to analyze Stalin’s views on a problem that is of concern to the Communist movement today, namely the role of violence in the strategy for taking power in Western Europe.Stalin’s views could vary significantly from one period to another. Between 1924 and 1933, he adhered to Leninist ideas, though a preference for caution can be detected even here. On the other hand, from 1934 to 1953, when he was the unchallenged leader of the Communist Party and was faced by quite a different international situation, he imposed on the Communist parties of Western Europe tactics that were less concerned with orthodoxy than with the interests of Soviet diplomacy. In post-war Eastern Europe, however, Stalin held that the Communists had shown that it was possible to take power without a civil war or foreign interventions. What was possible for the Eastern countries should be possible for those of the West, especially in view of the predominance that the Red Army would have acquired in this area after a Third World War, which Stalin believed to be inevitable in the near future.The analysis concludes that Stalin displayed a definite preference for nonviolent forms of struggle. In this respect, there is an affinity between Eurocommunism and Stalinism

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• Canadian Publications on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe for 1981

  Mary Stevens•Canadian Slavonic Papers•1982

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