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"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."--Jacket

This article examines the early transition from Stalinism to post-Stalinism, to expose the hesitations & difficulties that attended the Soviet leadership's initial attempts to deal with the Stalinist past. 'De-Stalinization' began almost immediately after Stalin's death, as the post-Stalinist regime attempted to reduce Stalin's charismatic power & to increase its own legitimacy, through undermining Stalinist thinking (which had dominated every policy domain) & through reducing the influence of the Stalin cult on Soviet public life. However, efforts to dismantle the mythologies surrounding Stalin did not begin in earnest until 1956. The initial attempts at radical de-Stalinization (Khrushchev's 'Secret Speech') are shown as unsuccessful, since they generated significant resistance & provoked an unprecedented diversity of public response. To achieve greater consensus & control over the 'Stalin question,' the Soviet authorities instead had to propagate a more moderate & ambiguous image of Stalin & Stalinism, which necessitated a hesitant approach to the symbols of the cult. The paradoxes of Stalin's public image during de-Stalinization in 1956 are exemplified through case studies of Soviet education & political symbolism. This article is based on doctoral research carried out in a number of state & Party archives at the central (Moscow) & local (Volgograd, Moscow) levels, using materials declassified as late as the latter half of the 1990s. Adapted from the source document.

SARTRE AGAINST STALINISM -- CONTENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- CHRONOLOGY -- Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION -- PART I. The Making of a Rebel -- Chapter 2. 'LA COMMUNISTE' -- Chapter 3. THE THREAT OF FASCISM -- Chapter 4. WAR WITHIN WAR -- PART II. Postwar Choices -- Chapter 5. THE BETTER CHOICE -- Chapter 6. MATERIALISM OR REVOLUTION? -- Chapter 7. THE SPECTRE OF TROTSKY -- Chapter 8. THE RDR -- Chapter 9. WHICH CAMP? -- PART III. Rapproachement with Stalinism -- Chapter 10. REORIENTATION -- Chapter 11. DANGEROUS LIAISON -- Chapter 12. DEBATE WITH THE FAR LEFT

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.