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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword to the fourth edition -- Map and list of figures -- Chronology -- Who's who -- Part 1 The context -- 1 Introduction: the problem -- Part 2 Analysis -- 2 Early years -- 3 The October revolution, state capitalism, war communism and the civil war, 1917-21 -- War communism -- 4 The new economic policy (NEP), 1921-28 -- Exit Trotsky and Zinoviev -- The Urals-Siberian method -- 5 The thirties -- The first FYP -- Collectivisation -- Famine -- The second FYP -- The murder of Kirov -- Stalinism emerges -- The Great Terror -- The third FYP -- Foreign policy -- Culture -- Society -- 6 The Great Fatherland War, 1941-45 -- The economy -- Culture -- The party -- The grand alliance -- 7 High Stalinism, 1945-53 -- Eastern Europe -- The Leningrad affair -- Economic policy -- Currency reform -- Meeting Mao -- The Korean war -- Eastern Europe -- The Cold war emerges -- Science -- Culture -- Spies -- The Doctors' plot and the Mingrelian affair -- Part 3 Assessment -- 8 Stalin: Personality and power -- Conclusion -- 9 The judgement -- 10 The legacy -- Foreign and security policy -- Empire -- Putin -- Part 4 Documents -- Part 4. Documents -- Document 1: The party -- Document 2: The right deviation -- Document 3: Dizzy with success -- Document 4: Harsh realities -- Document 5: The breakneck speed of industrialisation -- Document 6: Famine and the nouveaux riches -- Document 7: Fulfilment of the principal goals of the Stalinist Five-Year Plans, 1928-50 -- Document 8: Mandelstam's poem about Stalin (November 1933) -- Document 9: (A) Interrogation techniques -- Document 10: Bukharin -- Document 11: Operational order No. 00447: 30 July 1937 -- Document 12: Molotov -- Document 13: Stepan Podlubny's diary -- Document 14: Stalin the miracle-worker -- Document 15: The Stalin cult blossoms.

Comments on Vincent Barnett's "Understanding Stalinism -- The 'Orwellian Discrepancy' and the Rational Choice Dictator" (2006). Focus is on what are deemed Barnett's errors with respect to the author's (1996) article contrasting Joseph Stalin's purges with the Holocaust. It is argued that Barnett intends to reintroduce the moral question into the scholarship on Stalinism & speak in generalities, both of which are said to impede understanding of what happened. In this light, the author, with an eye toward objectivizing the debate, makes distinctions between Hitler's & Stalin's processes of killing. It is concluded that Barnett offers no improvements in the philosophical basis for understanding Stalinism. References. D. Edelman

A fragment of an unfinished essay by Piccone that explores the nature of Stalinism in the post-Cold War context to shed light on the institutional legacy seen to carry on in Western liberal democracies, presents Stalinism as understood by Stalinists.

A comment on Vincent Barnett's "Understanding Stalinism -- The 'Orwellian Discrepancy' and the Rational Choice Dictator" (2006) addresses Barnett's specific criticisms of what he labels the "Harrison-Davies" school of thought & his misrepresentation of Davies's work. Attention is given to his illegitimate transfer of the author's comment on E. H. Carr's world outlook to an assessment of the nature of Stalinism, Barnett's sweeping conclusions regarding Stalin's views on economics, & Barnett's charge that Harrison & Davies have neglected the nature of the socialist economy. References. D. Edelman