In the years since Stalin's death, his profound influence upon the
historical development of Communism has remained elusive and in
need of interpretation. Stalinism, as his system has become known,
is a phenomenon which embraced all facets of political and social
life. While its effect upon the Soviet Union and other nations
today is far less than it was while Stalin lived, it is by no means
dead. In this landmark volume some of the world's foremost scholars
of the subject, in a concerted group inquiry, present their
interpretations of Stalinism and its influence on all areas of
comparative Communist studies from history and politics to
economics, sociology, and literary scholarship. The studies
contained in this volume are an outgrowth of a conference on
Stalinism held in Bellagio, Italy, sponsored by the American
Council of Learned Societies. In his major contribution to this
book, Leszek Kolakowski calls Stalinism "a unified state organism
facing atom-like individuals." This extraordinary volume, augmented
by a revealing new introduction by the editor, Robert C. Tucker,
can be seen as amplifying that remark nearly a half century after
the death of Joseph Stalin himself. Contributors to this work are:
Wlodzimierz Brus, Katerina Clark, Stephen F. Cohen, Alexander
Erlich, Leszek Kolakowski, Moshe Lewin, Robert H. McNeal, Mihailo
Markovic, Roy A. Medvedev, T. H. Rigby, Robert Sharlet, and H.
Gordon Skilling. Robert C. Tucker's principle work on Stalin has
been described by George F. Kennan as "the most significant single
contribution made to date, anywhere, to the history of Soviet
power."
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