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> I hate to point this out, but if Stalin had not force-industrialized the
> USSR, the Nazis would have won.
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> That's what a lot of Russians think. Probably the majority.
As do I. (Caveat, what about the huge Purge of the Red Army by JVS, that decimsated the fighting ability of the Red Army after Hitler's Wehrmacht invaded. Remember, JVS had a temporary nervous breakdown when Hitler double crossed him. Why did he trust him?) It is a difficult question though. Do you dismiss Stephen Cohen and his advocacy of Bukharin's, "socialism at a snail's pace." Or someone to the left of Cohen, who is probably the son of Y. Gluckstein aka Tony Cliff of the UK SWP,
(My selections of a few of the items at the next URL.) Gluckstein, Donny. The Tragedy of Bukharin. London: Pluto Press, 1994.
Hmm, Mark Selden has good stuff on the PRC. Monthly Review Press published
a great anthology on Chinese Communism he edited back in the late 70's.
*Bergman, Theodor, Gert Schaefer, and Mark Selden, eds. Bukharin in
Retrospect. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.
> From this website,
http://www.nkwd.org/literature/unsorted_english_publications.html (Our goal
is to create an extensive information site about the crimes and victims of
the NKVD regime. If you have questions, ideas or information regarding our
project, please contact: admin at nkvd.org) I just found to get the title of
the Pluto Press book. Excellent book, I checked it out of the SF State
library recently.Ward, Chris. Stalin's Russia. London: Edward Arnold, 1993,
1994.
Tucker, Robert C. Stalinism: Essays in Historical Interpretation. Essential
anthology along w/the Tariq Ali.
Saunders, George, ed. Samizdat: Voices of the Soviet Opposition. New York: Monad Press, 1974. (From the U.S. SWP)
Hmm. Ardis translates tons of Russian lit.)Rancour-Lafferiere, Daniel. The Mind of Stalin: A Psychoanalytic Study. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1988.
Nove, Alec, and James Millar. "A Debate on Collectivization: Was Stalin Really Necessary?", Problems of Communism, 25, 1976.
Nicolaevsky, Boris I. Power and the Soviet Elite: "The Letter of an Old Bolshevik" and Other Essays. Edited by Janet D. Zagoria. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1965, 1975. On Nicolaevsky see, http://www.hup.harvard.edu/reviews/LIEFRO_R.html
(Never heard of this one.) Jasny, Naum. Soviet Industrialization, 1928- 1952. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1961.
(Chapter on this ur-text in, "Stalin and the European Communists, " by P. Spriono, Verso Books, circa 1990 or so.) History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course. Edited by a Commision of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.). New York: International Publishers, 1939.
Getty, J. Arch, Gabor T. Rittersporn, and Viktor N. Zemskov. "Victims of the Soviet Penal System in the Pre-war Years: A First Approach on the Basis of Archival Evidence." The American Historical Review 4 (October 1993): 1017-1049.
Getty, J. Arch, and Roberta T. Manning, eds. Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
(Good chapter on Sovietology/Kremlinology.)Stephen Cohen, Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics & History Since 1917. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985, 1986.
Borkenau, Franz. World Communism: A History of the Communist International. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962. (Also wrote a classic on the Spanish Civil War, a Trot friend recommends.)
Berdyaev, Nicolas. The Origins of Russian Communism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1964.(Is he still read in Russia?)
Antonov-Ovseyenko, Anton. The Time of Stalin: Portrait of a Tyranny. New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1980. (One of the best autobios/histories.) -- Michael Pugliese