The Soviet historian, Medvedev, has updated his book which was first published in 1969, to include information amassed from personal inteviews, memoirs and archive material on certain events of the period, such as the 1929-32 purges, the Kirov assassination, the trial of Bukharin, Trotsky's revolutionary activity and Stalin's involvement with his murder, Stalin's mistakes during the war, new purges from 1946-53 and the vote of the 17th Congress which decided Stalin's candidacy. The new introduction discusses the treatment of Stalin and Stalinism in the USSR under Gorbachev.

Let history judge;: The origins and consequences of Stalinism

History

Medvedev, Roy Aleksandrovich

Russia

Macmillan

From within the Soviet Union, a critique of the  Soviet political system by the celebrated  dissident scholar.Roy Medvedev demonstrates, in engrossing and sharp detail, how the vast gulf between Marxist-Leninist principles and official Soviet attitudes and procedures turned vital theory into hollow dogma. Focusing on the rigidities of official ideology, he makes brilliantly clear the ways in which an excessively centralized and cumbersome bureaucratic structure was disastrous for the economic, intellectual, and moral development of Soviet society—keeping it dangerously insular in an era of increasing internationalism.

On socialist democracy

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

With the assistance of Khrushchev's family, and particularly his son Sergei, the noted Russian dissident historian constructs a full-fleshed portrait of the volatile Russian leader and his personal and political battles

Khrushchev (English and Russian Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Anchor Books

With the assistance of Khrushchev's family, and particularly his son Sergei, the noted Russian dissident historian constructs a full-fleshed portrait of the volatile Russian leader and his personal and political battles

Khrushchev

Anchor Books/Doubleday

184 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout. This Book Presents Six Short Biographies, Political Portraits Of Men Who At Dfferent Times Were In Stalin's Immediate Entourage.

All Stalin's Men (English and Russian Edition)

DOUBLEDAY

A unique view of the Khrushchev period as seen by two prominent Soviet dissidents. This portrait by two noted Soviet authors and dissidents of Nikita Khrushchev's years in power reveals the former leader of the Soviet Union as a decisive, even impetuous, innovator, a side of him little known before in the West. Khrushchev emerges as a man impatient to destroy Stalinism, to remedy defects in the Soviet system, and to solve the problems of Soviet agriculture. As no other book before it, Khrushchev brings into focus the many sides of the shrewd and complex Soviet leader and the interrelation between Soviet politics and agricultural policy that brought about his removal from power.

Khrushchev: The Years in Power (Norton Library (Paperback)) (N879)

W.W.Norton&Company

The Samizdat Register (English and Russian Edition)

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

B. Blackwell

China and the Superpowers

Blackwell*publishers

Leninism and Western socialism

Verso

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