Let History Judge
2nd Edition
Published on 1. December 1989
Book
Hardback
924 pages
978-0-19-215362-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
ISBN-13
978-0-19-215362-3 (9780192153623)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Part 1 Stalin's rise in the party: Stalin as a party chief; the fight with the opposition; mistakes and crimes in collectivization and industrialization; new crimes by Stalin in the early 1930's. Part 2 Stalin's usurpation of power, and the great terror: the Kirov assassination and the purge trials; the assault on party and state cadras, 1937-1938; rehabilitation and repression, 1938-1941; illegal methods of investigation and confinement. Part 3 Stalinism - its nature and causes: the problem of Stalin's responsibility; other causes of mass repression; conditions facilitating Stalin's usurpation of power. Part 4 Some consequences of Stalin's personal dictatorship: errors in diplomacy and war; crimes and mistakes in the postwar period; the impact of Stalinism on science and art; socialism and pseudosocialism.