On Aug 17, 2007, at 12:45 PM, Russell Grinker wrote:
> implosion of Stalinism
Stalin died in 1953. The USSR survived him by almost 40 years. The states were repressive, for sure, but there was nothing like the hellishness of collectivization or the gulag. Applying the term "Stalinism" to Soviet & Eastern European societies of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s doesn't seem very helpful - actually it seems kind of lazy or sectarian or both.
Doug