Аннотация: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.
