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Book SynopsisMarx once wrote that history weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.' Perhaps he did not know how right he would be. Even twenty years after the Soviet Union's collapse, activists are still confronted by the legacy of Communism, particularly in regards to Stalinism. Tariq Ali's The Stalinist Legacy aims to deepen understanding of the origins, impacts and enduring prominence of Stalinism, so as to help exorcise these ghosts of the past. Edited by Tariq Ali, author of The Obama Syndrome (Verso, 2011) and editor of the New Left Review.'
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction to new edition Introduction to the first edition Part 1: The Roots of the Problem 1. Social relations in the Soviet Union - Leon Trotsky 2. The 'Professional Dangers' of Power - Christian Rakovsky 3. What is the Bureaucracy? - Ernest Mandel 4. 'Socialism in Once Country' - Isaac Deutscher 5. Marxism and Primitive Magic - Isaac Deutscher 6. Trotsky's Interpretation of Stalinism - Perry Anderson 7. Was Lenin a Stalinist? - Marcel Liebman 8. Stalinist Ideology and Science - Michael Löwy Part 2: Stalinism in Crisis 9. The Trotskyists in Vorkuta Prison Camp - 'M.B.' 10. Stalin and the Second World War - Fernando Claudin 11. The First Breach: The Excommunication of Yugoslavia - Josip Broz Tito et al. 12. Secret Report to the 20th Party Congress of the CPSU - Nikita S. Krushchev 13. Maoism, Stalinism and the Chinese Revolution - Roland Lew 14. The Peculiarities of Vietnamese Communism - Pierre Rousset 15. The Tragedy of Indian Communism - K. Damodaran 16. Hungary 1956: A Participant's Account - Nicholas Krasso 17. How They Crushed the Prague Spring of 1968 - Josef Smrkovsky 18. The Political Culture of Hoxha' Albania - Arshi Pipa 19. The Polish Vortex: Solidarity and Socialism - Oliver MacDonald 20. Solzhenitsyn: The Witness and the Prophet - Daniel Singer Epilogue: The Heirs of Stalin - Yevgeni Yevtushenko
