Bolshevism, Stalinism and the Comintern

Bringing together leading authorities and cutting edge scholars, this collection re-examines the defining concepts of Stalinism and the Stalinization odel. The aim of the book is to explore how the common imperatives of a centralized movement were experienced across national boundaries.

'...the book serves as a very welcome addition to the scholarship on international Communism in the first half of the twentieth century...the book deserves a wide readership.'- European Review of History

Autorentext
Matthew Worley is Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading.

Inhalt
Introduction: Stalinization and Communist Historiography; N.LaPorte , K.Morgan & M.Worley The Stalinization of the KPD: Old and New Views; H.Weber Stalinization: Balance Sheet of a Complex Notion; B.Studer The Central Bodies of the Comintern: Stalinization and Changing Social Composition; P.Huber The Impact of 'Bolshevization' and 'Stalinization' on French and German Communism: A Comparative View; A.Wirsching Paul Levi and the Turning Point of 1921: Bolshevik Emissaries and International Discipline in the Time of Lenin; J-F.Fayet 'Kings among their subjects'? Ernst Thälmann, Harry Pollitt and the Leadership Cult as Stalinization; N.LaPorte & K.Morgan Stalinization and the Communist Party of Italy; A.Agosti The Spanish Civil War and the Routes of Stalinization; G.Hermann Finnish Communism, Bolshevization and Stalinization; T.Saarela To Make the Nation or to Break It: Communist Dilemmas in Two Interwar Multinational States; B.Fowkes Testing the Limits: Stalinization and the New Zealand and British Communist Parties; K.Taylor & M.Worley From Bolshevism to Stalinism: Communism and the Comintern in Ireland; E.O'Connor 'Their unCommunist Stand': Chicago's Foreign Language Speaking Communists and the Question of Stalinization, 1928-35; R.Storch The Profintern and the 'Syndicalist Current' in the United States; E.P.Johanningsmeier X