Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism

Let History Judge / Roy Medvedev......Page 1003.djvu
ISBN 0-231-06350-4......Page 1004.djvu
C O N T E N T S......Page 1005.djvu
Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition......Page 1011.djvu
Translator's Note......Page 1019.djvu
Introductory Essay: Perestroika and Stalinism, 1988......Page 1.djvu
PART 1: STALIN’S RISE IN THE PARTY......Page 23.djvu
1. Before 1917......Page 25.djvu
2. In 1917......Page 39.djvu
3. Commissar of Nationalities......Page 49.djvu
4. In the Civil War......Page 55.djvu
5. Lenin's Support......Page 63.djvu
6. General Secretary......Page 67.djvu
7. The Death of Lenin......Page 75.djvu
8. Lenin’s “Testament”......Page 79.djvu
9. Stalin in 1923-1924......Page 87.djvu
1. Disputes in the Bolshevik Party......Page 92.djvu
2. Trotsky......Page 96.djvu
3. Disputes in the Politburo, 1923......Page 110.djvu
4. The Trotskyist Opposition, 1923-1924......Page 116.djvu
5. Zinoviev and Kamenev......Page 136.djvu
6. The “New Opposition”......Page 143.djvu
7. The Deaths of Frunze and Dzerzhinsky......Page 155.djvu
8. The United Opposition, 1926-1927......Page 159.djvu
9. Bukharin......Page 183.djvu
10. The “Right Deviation”......Page 192.djvu
1. Cooperatives and Collectivization in Agriculture......Page 211.djvu
2. Crain Procurement Difficulties, 1927-1928......Page 217.djvu
3. Distortions and Mistakes in Collectivization......Page 221.djvu
4. Collectivization and Persecution of the Orthodox Church......Page 228.djvu
5. “Liquidation of the Kulaks as a Class”......Page 230.djvu
6. Administrative Repression in the Countryside, 1932- 1933......Page 238.djvu
7. Famine in the Countryside, 1932-1933......Page 240.djvu
8. Internal Passports......Page 245.djvu
9. Shortcomings and Mistakes in Industrialization......Page 248.djvu
1. Soviet Power and the “Bourgeois” Intelligentsia......Page 255.djvu
2. Political Trials of 1928-1930......Page 258.djvu
3. The “Industrial Party” and “Union Bureau” Trials, 1931......Page 263.djvu
4. Fraudulence of the Trials of 1928-1931......Page 266.djvu
5. Behind the Scenes of the Trials......Page 272.djvu
6. Mass Repression Against the Intelligentsia and Specialists......Page 284.djvu
7. The End of NEP......Page 289.djvu
8. Repression Inside the Party......Page 292.djvu
9. The Suicide of Nadezhda Alliluyeva......Page 298.djvu
10. Repression in the Social Sciences and Literature......Page 303.djvu
11. Stalin's Policies in the International Working Class Movement......Page 307.djvu
12. Beginning of the Stalin Cult......Page 313.djvu
13. Bukharin in the Early Thirties......Page 319.djvu
14. Trotsky in the Early Thirties......Page 321.djvu
PART 2: STALIN'S USURPATION OF POWER, ANO THE GREAT TERROR......Page 325.djvu
1. The Beginnings of New Opposition, 1934......Page 327.djvu
2. The Kirov Assassination......Page 334.djvu
3. Repression in Early 1935......Page 346.djvu
4. Repression Continues, 1935-1936......Page 348.djvu
5. The First Moscow Trial, 1936......Page 354.djvu
6. The Fall of Yagoda and Promotion of Yezhov......Page 358.djvu
7. Trial of the “Parallel Center”......Page 361.djvu
8. The February-March Plenum of 1937......Page 364.djvu
9. Trial of the “Anti-Soviet Right-Trotskyite Bloc”......Page 368.djvu
10. The Fraudulence of the Moscow Show Trials......Page 375.djvu
11. Mass Repression of Former Oppositionists......Page 383.djvu
12. Trotsky, 1936-1940......Page 389.djvu
6 The Assault on Party and State Cadres, 1937-1938......Page 395.djvu
1. The Assault on Cadres of the Central Party, Government, & Economic Institutions......Page 396.djvu
2. The Death of Sergo Ordzhonikidze......Page 399.djvu
3. The Death of Nadezhda Alliluyeva......Page 403.djvu
4. The Fate of Others Close to Lenin......Page 406.djvu
5. The Assault on Cadres in Provinces & Union Republics......Page 409.djvu
6. Repression in the Trade Unions and Komsomol......Page 417.djvu
7. Destruction of the Cadres of the Red Army......Page 420.djvu
8. Repression in the NKVD, the Courts, and the Procuracy......Page 425.djvu
9. Repression of Comintern Activists and Members of Non-Soviet Communist Parties......Page 430.djvu
10. Repression Among the Scientific and Technical Intelligentsia......Page 437.djvu
11. Repression in Literature and the Arts......Page 445.djvu
12. Repression Among the Populace at Large......Page 449.djvu
1. Yezhov’s Replacement by Beria......Page 456.djvu
2. Beria's Political Career......Page 461.djvu
3. Partial Rehabilitations, 1939-1941......Page 466.djvu
4. New Repression, 1939-1941......Page 469.djvu
5. International Response to 1936-1938 Repression......Page 474.djvu
1. Torture......Page 485.djvu
2. The Farce of a Trial; Jails and Prisoner Transports......Page 499.djvu
3. The “Corrective” Labor Camps......Page 506.djvu
4. NKVD Personnel: Their Conduct and Responsibility......Page 512.djvu
PART 3: STALINISM: ITS NATURE AND CAUSES......Page 521.djvu
1. Stalin’s Leading Role in the Repression of 1936-1938......Page 523.djvu
2. Was Stalin “Deceived”?......Page 533.djvu
3. Was Stalin Mentally Ill?......Page 541.djvu
4. The Myth of Stalin’s “Permanent Revolution“......Page 551.djvu
5. The Myth of Sta_lin’s “National Revolution”......Page 555.djvu
6. The Myth of Stalin's “Anti-Communist Revolution”......Page 564.djvu
7. Was Stalin a Police Agent?......Page 572.djvu
8. Stalin’s Personality and the Motives for His Crimes......Page 585.djvu
1. The Chain Reaction of Arrests......Page 602.djvu
2. The Concept of “Political Crime”......Page 607.djvu
3. Mass Participation in the Repression......Page 608.djvu
1. Posing the Problem......Page 614.djvu
2. Again on the Stalin Cult......Page 617.djvu
3. The Absence of Glassnost and Freedom of Criticism......Page 623.djvu
4. The Domestic and International Situation......Page 628.djvu
5. Centralization and Length of Term in Cflice......Page 634.djvu
6. The Bolshevik Party's Political Monopoly......Page 638.djvu
7. Perversion of Lenin’s Concept of Party Unity......Page 649.djvu
8. Stalin's Personal Control over Agencies of Repression......Page 652.djvu
9. Ends and Means in the Socialist Revolution......Page 660.djvu
10. Incomprehension and Lack of Solidarity......Page 673.djvu
11. Bureaucratization and Degeneration......Page 685.djvu
12. Conservatism and Dogmatism in Some Revolutionary Cadres......Page 695.djvu
13. The Socialist State in Theory and Practice......Page 702.djvu
14. Lack of Effective Popular Control......Page 707.djvu
15. Insufficient Education, Culture, and Democratic Tradition......Page 711.djvu
PART 4: SOME CONSEQUENCES OF STALIN'S PERSONAL DICTATORSHIP......Page 721.djvu
1. Stalin's Foreign Policy, 1939-40......Page 723.djvu
2. War with Finland......Page 732.djvu
3. Stalin's Military-Strategic Blunder of 1941......Page 735.djvu
4. Stalin as Military Leader......Page 747.djvu
5. Repression During the War......Page 771.djvu
1. Repression After the War......Page 781.djvu
2. Repression in the “People's Democracies”......Page 791.djvu
3. Weakening of the Worker-Peasant Alliance......Page 797.djvu
4. Official Anti-Semitism......Page 802.djvu
1. The Social Sciences......Page 808.djvu
2. The Belittling of Lenin's Role......Page 815.djvu
3. Stalin's Theoretical “Legacy”......Page 820.djvu
4. The Natural Sciences......Page 828.djvu
5. Art and Literature......Page 830.djvu
1. The Dominance of Bureaucracy......Page 836.djvu
2. Political Sectarianism......Page 846.djvu
3. Hypocrisy......Page 849.djvu
4. Pseudosocialism......Page 852.djvu
1. Stalin's Last Years......Page 861.djvu
2. The Problem of Assessing Stalin's Record......Page 868.djvu
Glossary......Page 875.djvu
Index......Page 881.djvu