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This is the verbatim record of a secret and hitherto unpublished
meeting, held in the Kremlin in April 1940, devoted to a post
mortem of the Finnish campaign.
Joseph Stalin was one of the most ruthless and authoritarian
dictators in world history, who plunged Russia into a barbarous
nightmare, leaving behind a damaged nation and a legacy of grief.
This concise biography presents Lenin’s heir from his humble and
troubled beginnings to the highest rank of all: General Secretary of
the Communist Party. Stalin: A Pocket Biography is an accessible
account of a complex tyrant, perfect for students or anyone taking a
first look into modern Russian history.
"Is there a Western world leader whose reputation has not been
re-analysed and reassessed, usually to his or her detriment?" With
this question, Harold Shukman introduces "Redefining Stalinism," a
collection of articles published 50 years after Stalin's death.
With the opening of Soviet archives to an unprecedented degree
since the demise of the USSR, totalitarian and revisionist
arguments about Stalin and the Stalinist system can be more closely
explored. Topics range from a survey of recent Western views of
Stalin's Russia, to an account of Stalin's approach to
intelligence, two separate analyses of totalitarianism, the
politics of obligation, the cult of the dead in Soviet political
memory, and the de-mythologising of Stalin in the years immediately
following his death.
From 14-17 April 1940, a meeting was held in the Kremlin to examine
and analyze the performance of the Red Army in the recent
Soviet-Finnish War. T he participants were all the army commanders
who had taken part in the campaign, and some members of the
Politburo, notably Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov. This book is an
English translation of the verbatim record held in the Russian
State Socio-Political History Archives in Moscow. Marshals Kliment
Voroshilov and Grigory Kulik co-chaired the sessions, but it was
Stalin who guided the proceedings. Forty-six regimental,
divisional, corps, army and front commanders, and senior Red Army
officials delivered their reports and engaged in debate. Stalin
gave a long speech at the closing of the last session in which he
expounded his views on all aspects of military policy.
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