Stalin Versus Marx : The Stalinist Historical Doctrine.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- I: POKROVSKY DIED TWICE -- Tasks of the Soviet historian until 1934 -- Soviet Union as quintessence of mankind -- To each according to his achievement -- God is not yet dead -- The State did not die, and the proletarians did not unite -- II: TWO WORDS VINDICATED -- Back from the iceberg -- Hider's influence -- III: THE NEW DOCTRINE -- 1 The peoples are various and eternal -- 2 Special position of the Soviet and the Russian people -- Against the 'belittled' -- 3 Ethnogenesis-autochthonism-borrowing -- The Scythians -- Anti-Norman -- Anti-Thracian -- Against the 'borrowers' -- 4 Geographical philosophy -- 5 The eternal Russian language -- The Pravda discussion -- Stalin's five letters -- Stalin's new doctrine -- 1930 and 1950 -- 'Don Quixote of Linguistics' -- The bond of union -- Into new depths -- The Cyrillic victory -- Empire languages -- 6 The State remains -- Two leaps -- No more revolutions! -- The lonely master -- Stalin, sun, moon, and stars -- 7 The return of personality -- 8 Slavs of all the world -- 9 The Russians as pacemakers -- 10 The importance of periodisation -- Competition for priority -- A gifted people -- 'Ivan Grozny' -- 11 The midwife theory -- Progressive barbarians -- Kazaks uplifted -- Kirghiz helped on -- 2000 years ago -- The historical labyrinth -- Polish falsifiers -- Three dilemmas -- 12 The interest of the Soviet people is the interest of mankind -- IV: WHAT IT ALL MEANS -- From dialectic to magic -- Marx relativised -- Doctrine of the active superstructure -- The practical application -- The Guards on the march -- Orders and epaulettes -- New-or age-old? -- Unadmitted change -- Growing isolation -- The Chosen People and the others -- World patriotism = World imperialism -- The two motors.

Originally published in 1952, this book examines the change from revolutionism to nationalism which took place in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. It describes the course of this change, as shown by Stalin's decrees and writings, and discusses the Stalinist conception of Russian and world history, and its bearing on world revolution.

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