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Stalinist Russia
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Stalinist Russia
An analysis of pro- and anti-Stalin historical interpretations and its effect on post-Stalin liberalization. Includes politics, World War II and economics.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages) |
8 sources |
1993
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"The Soviet Union as it existed until 1991 was essentially the legacy of Josef Stalin. More than Lenin--who died in 1924, only seven years after the Revolution, and who was in failing health for some time before that--it was Stalin who shaped the Soviet political and economic system. It was Stalin who shaped the image of Communism as a system based on labor-camps and mass terror. On the other side of the balance, it was also Stalin who forged the Soviet Union into a military and industrial superpower and who played perhaps the greatest single role in the defeat of Nazi Germany.In the eyes of official Soviet propaganda, and of his apologists in Stalin's own day and to a degree for many years thereafter, Stalin was presented as a sort of demigod (see for..."
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