Another View of Stalin

FOREWORD............................................................................................................................................................................. 5
INTRODUCTION: THE IMPORTANCE OF STALIN........................................................................................................6
STALIN IS OF VITAL IMPORTANCE IN THE FORMER SOCIALIST COUNTRIES................................................................................................ 9
STALIN IS AT THE CENTER OF POLITICAL DEBATES IN SOCIALIST COUNTRIES............................................................................................9
STALIN'S WORK IS OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE IN THE THIRD WORLD..................................................................................................... 9
STALIN'S WORK TAKES ON NEW MEANING GIVEN THE SITUATION CREATED SINCE CAPITALIST RESTORATION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 11
IN COMMUNIST PARTIES AROUND THE WORLD, THE IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE AROUND THE STALIN QUESTION PRESENTS MANY COMMON
CHARACTERISTICS...................................................................................................................................................................... 11
THE YOUNG STALIN FORGES HIS ARMS..................................................................................................................... 13
STALIN'S ACTIVITIES IN 1900—1917..........................................................................................................................................15
THE `SOCIALISTS' AND REVOLUTION............................................................................................................................................. 20
STALIN DURING THE CIVIL WAR..................................................................................................................................................22
LENIN'S `WILL'........................................................................................................................................................................ 25
BUILDING SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY...................................................................................................................32
SOCIALIST INDUSTRIALIZATION.................................................................................................................................. 39
HEROISM AND ENTHUSIASM.........................................................................................................................................................40
CLASS WAR.............................................................................................................................................................................. 43
AN ECONOMIC MIRACLE............................................................................................................................................................. 46
COLLECTIVIZATION.......................................................................................................................................................... 48
FROM REBUILDING PRODUCTION TO SOCIAL CONFRONTATION.............................................................................................................48
Weakness of the party in the countryside.........................................................................................................................49
The character of the Russian peasant............................................................................................................................. 50
New class differentiation................................................................................................................................................. 51
Who controlled the market wheat?..................................................................................................................................52
Towards confrontation.....................................................................................................................................................52
Bukharin's position..........................................................................................................................................................53
Betting on the kolkhoz .................................................................................................................................................... 54
... or betting on the individual peasant?..........................................................................................................................55
THE FIRST WAVE OF COLLECTIVIZATION......................................................................................................................................... 56
The kulak......................................................................................................................................................................... 56
The kolkhozy surpass the kulaks......................................................................................................................................57
A fiery mass movement.................................................................................................................................................... 58
The war against the kulak............................................................................................................................................... 59
The essential rôle of the most oppressed masses.............................................................................................................60
THE ORGANIZATIONAL LINE ON COLLECTIVIZATION.......................................................................................................................... 61
The Party apparatus in the countryside.......................................................................................................................... 61
Extraordinary organizational measures..........................................................................................................................62
The 25,000....................................................................................................................................................................... 63
The 25,000 against the bureaucracy............................................................................................................................... 64
The 25,000 against the kulaks......................................................................................................................................... 65
The 25,000 and the organization of agricultural production.......................................................................................... 65
THE POLITICAL DIRECTION OF COLLECTIVIZATION............................................................................................................................66
The November 1929 resolution........................................................................................................................................68
Reject Bukharin's opportunism........................................................................................................................................68
New difficulties, new tasks...............................................................................................................................................69
The January 5, 1930 resolution.......................................................................................................................................70
`DEKULAKIZATION'.................................................................................................................................................................... 71
Kulak rumors and indoctrination.................................................................................................................................... 72
What should be done with the kulaks?............................................................................................................................ 73
Struggle to the end...........................................................................................................................................................74
The resolution on dekulakization.....................................................................................................................................75
The kulak offensive picks up strength..............................................................................................................................76
Kautsky and the `kulak revolution'.................................................................................................................................. 77
`DIZZY WITH SUCCESS'...............................................................................................................................................................78
Stalin corrects..................................................................................................................................................................79
Rectify and consolidate................................................................................................................................................... 80
Right opportunism rears its head.................................................................................................................................... 81
The anti-Communists attack............................................................................................................................................82
Retreats and advances.....................................................................................................................................................83
Remarkable results.......................................................................................................................................................... 83
THE RISE OF SOCIALIST AGRICULTURE........................................................................................................................................... 85
The second wave of collectivization................................................................................................................................ 85
Economic and social creativity........................................................................................................................................86
Investments in the countryside........................................................................................................................................ 88
The breakthrough of socialist agriculture....................................................................................................................... 89
`Colossal support'............................................................................................................................................................90
THE COLLECTIVIZATION `GENOCIDE'..............................................................................................................................................92
COLLECTIVIZATION AND THE `UKRAINIAN HOLOCAUST'..................................................................................95
A BOOK FROM HITLER............................................................................................................................................................... 97
A BOOK FROM MCCARTHY.........................................................................................................................................................99
BETWEEN 1 AND 15 MILLION DEAD........................................................................................................................................... 99
TWO PROFESSORS TO THE RESCUE OF UKRAINIAN NAZIS............................................................................................................... 100
`SCIENTIFIC' CALCULATIONS...................................................................................................................................................... 101
B-MOVIES.............................................................................................................................................................................. 102
HARVEST OF SORROW: CONQUEST AND THE RECONVERSION OF UKRAINIAN NAZI COLLABORATORS..................................................... 103
CONQUEST'S FASCIST SOURCES...................................................................................................................................................107
THE CAUSES OF FAMINE IN THE UKRAINE.................................................................................................................................... 108
UKRAINE UNDER NAZI OCCUPATION............................................................................................................................................111
THE STRUGGLE AGAINST BUREAUCRACY.............................................................................................................. 112
ANTI-COMMUNISTS AGAINST `BUREAUCRACY'..............................................................................................................................112
BOLSHEVIKS AGAINST BUREAUCRATIZATION................................................................................................................................. 113
REINFORCE PUBLIC EDUCATION.................................................................................................................................................. 114
REGULARLY PURGE THE PARTY..................................................................................................................................................115
THE STRUGGLE FOR REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRACY........................................................................................................................ 116
THE PARTY ELECTIONS IN 1937: A `REVOLUTION'........................................................................................................................117
THE GREAT PURGE...........................................................................................................................................................118
HOW DID THE CLASS ENEMY PROBLEM POSE ITSELF?..................................................................................................................... 121
Boris Bazhanov..............................................................................................................................................................121
George Solomon............................................................................................................................................................ 122
Frunze............................................................................................................................................................................124
Alexander Zinoviev........................................................................................................................................................125
THE STRUGGLE AGAINST OPPORTUNISM IN THE PARTY................................................................................................................... 126
THE TRIALS AND STRUGGLE AGAINST REVISIONISM AND ENEMY INFILTRATION.................................................................................... 130
The trial of the Trotskyite-Zinovievist Centre................................................................................................................130
Trotsky and counter-revolution..................................................................................................................................................131
`Destroy the communist movement'......................................................................................................................................131
Capitalist restoration is impossible....................................................................................................................................... 133
In support of terror and insurrection..................................................................................................................................... 135
The Zinoviev--Kamenev--Smirnov counter-revolutionary group...............................................................................................136
The trial of Pyatakov and the Trotskyists...................................................................................................................... 137
Sabotage in the Urals................................................................................................................................................................. 138
Sabotage in Kazakhstan............................................................................................................................................................. 141
Pyatakov in Berlin..................................................................................................................................................................... 143
Sabotage in Magnitogorsk..........................................................................................................................................................144
The trial of the Bukharinist social-democratic group................................................................................................... 145
The February 1937 decision to purge.........................................................................................................................................145
The Riutin affair.........................................................................................................................................................................148
Bukharin's revisionism...............................................................................................................................................................149
Bukharin and the enemies of Bolshevism.................................................................................................................................. 150
Bukharin and the military conspiracy.........................................................................................................................................153
Bukharin and the question of the coup d'état..............................................................................................................................154
Bukharin's confession................................................................................................................................................................ 156
From Bukharin to Gorbachev.....................................................................................................................................................164
The Tukhachevsky trial and the anti-Communist conspiracy within the army..............................................................165
Plot?...........................................................................................................................................................................................166
The militarist and Bonapartist tendency.....................................................................................................................................170
Vlasov........................................................................................................................................................................................171
Solzhenitsyn...............................................................................................................................................................................173
A clandestine anti-Communist organization in the Red Army....................................................................................................175
THE 1937--1938 PURGE........................................................................................................................................................ 183
THE RECTIFICATION..................................................................................................................................................................187
THE WESTERN BOURGEOISIE AND THE PURGE..............................................................................................................................191
TROTSKY'S RÔLE ON THE EVE OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR........................................................................ 192
THE ENEMY IS THE NEW ARISTOCRACY, THE NEW BOLSHEVIK BOURGEOISIE...................................................................................... 193
BOLSHEVISM AND FASCISM........................................................................................................................................................195
DEFEATISM AND CAPITULATION IN FRONT OF NAZI GERMANY........................................................................................................ 196
TROTSKY AND THE TUKHACHEVSKY PLOT................................................................................................................................... 197
PROVOCATIONS IN THE SERVICE OF THE NAZIS............................................................................................................................. 199
TROTSKY ENCOURAGED TERRORISM AND ARMED INSURRECTION...................................................................................................... 201
STALIN AND THE ANTI-FASCIST WAR.........................................................................................................................203
THE GERMANO-SOVIET PACT...................................................................................................................................................203
DID STALIN POORLY PREPARE THE ANTI-FASCIST WAR?.................................................................................................................. 209
THE DAY OF THE GERMAN ATTACK.............................................................................................................................................214
STALIN AND THE NAZI WAR OF ANNIHILATION.............................................................................................................................. 224
STALIN, HIS PERSONALITY AND HIS MILITARY CAPACITIES............................................................................................................... 229
Stalin, the `dictator'.......................................................................................................................................................230
Stalin, the `hysteric'.......................................................................................................................................................234
Stalin, of `mediocre intelligence'................................................................................................................................... 238
Stalin's military merits...................................................................................................................................................239
FROM STALIN TO KHRUSHCHEV.................................................................................................................................241
THE U.S. TAKES UP WHERE NAZI GERMANY LEFT OFF................................................................................................................. 243
Gehlen, the Nazi, and the CIA.......................................................................................................................................243
The nuclear bomb against the Soviet Union................................................................................................................. 244
Anti-imperialist struggle and the struggle for peace.....................................................................................................246
Tito's revisionism and the United States........................................................................................................................249
STALIN AGAINST OPPORTUNISM.................................................................................................................................................. 256
Bourgeois tendencies in the thirties...............................................................................................................................256
Weaknesses in the struggle against opportunism.......................................................................................................... 259
Beria's and Khrushchev's revisionist groups.................................................................................................................260
Stalin against the future Khrushchevism.......................................................................................................................263
KHRUSHCHEV'S COUP D'ÉTAT..................................................................................................................................................... 268
Beria's intrigues.............................................................................................................................................................268
Stalin's death................................................................................................................................................................. 270
Khrushchev's intrigues against Beria............................................................................................................................271
The `rehabilitated' enemies........................................................................................................................................... 272
Khrushchev and the pacific counter-revolution............................................................................................................ 273
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................................................... 275
FOREWORD.............................................................................................................................................................................275
INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................................................................275
CHAPTER 1............................................................................................................................................................................ 275
CHAPTER 2............................................................................................................................................................................ 278
CHAPTER 3............................................................................................................................................................................ 279
CHAPTER 4............................................................................................................................................................................ 280
CHAPTER 5............................................................................................................................................................................ 288
CHAPTER 6............................................................................................................................................................................ 289
CHAPTER 7............................................................................................................................................................................ 290
CHAPTER 8............................................................................................................................................................................ 295
CHAPTER 9............................................................................................................................................................................ 296
CHAPTER 10.......................................................................................................................................................................... 298