Copyright © 1995 John Plaice. All Rights Reserved
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• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction: The importance of Stalin
  • Stalin is of vital importance in the former socialist countries
  • Stalin is at the center of political debates in socialist countries
  • Stalin's work is of crucial importance in the Third World
  • Stalin's work takes on new meaning given the situation created since capitalist restoration in Central and Eastern Europe
  • In Communist Parties around the world, the ideological struggle around the Stalin question presents many common characteristics
• The young Stalin forges his arms
  • Stalin's activities in 1900--1917
  • The `socialists' and revolution
  • Stalin during the Civil War
  • Lenin's `Will'
• Building socialism in one country
• Socialist industrialization
  • Heroism and enthusiasm
  • Class war
  • An economic miracle
• Collectivization
  • From rebuilding production to social confrontation
    • Weakness of the party in the countryside
    • The character of the Russian peasant
    • New class differentiation
    • Who controlled the market wheat?
    • Towards confrontation
    • Bukharin's position
    • Betting on the kolkhoz ...
    • ... or betting on the individual peasant?
  • The first wave of collectivization
    • The kulak
    • The kolkhozy surpass the kulaks
    • A fiery mass movement
    • The war against the kulak
    • The essential rôle of the most oppressed masses
  • The organizational line on collectivization
    • The Party apparatus in the countryside
    • Extraordinary organizational measures
    • The 25,000
    • The 25,000 against the bureaucracy
    • The 25,000 against the kulaks
    • The 25,000 and the organization of agricultural production
  • The political direction of collectivization
    • The November 1929 resolution
    • Reject Bukharin's opportunism
    • New difficulties, new tasks
    • The January 5, 1930 resolution
  • `Dekulakization'
    • Kulak rumors and indoctrination
    • What should be done with the kulaks?
    • Struggle to the end
    • The resolution on dekulakization
    • The kulak offensive picks up strength
    • Kautsky and the `kulak revolution'
  • `Dizzy with success'
    • Stalin corrects
    • Rectify and consolidate
    • Right opportunism rears its head
    • The anti-Communists attack
    • Retreats and advances
    • Remarkable results
  • The rise of socialist agriculture
    • The second wave of collectivization
    • Economic and social creativity
    • Investments in the countryside
    • The breakthrough of socialist agriculture
    • `Colossal support'
  • The collectivization `genocide'
• Collectivization and the `Ukrainian Holocaust'
  • A book from Hitler
  • A book from McCarthy
  • Between 1 and 15 Million Dead
  • Two professors to the rescue of Ukrainian Nazis
  • `Scientific' calculations
  • B-movies
  • Harvest of Sorrow: Conquest and the reconversion of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators
  • Conquest's fascist sources
  • The causes of famine in the Ukraine
  • Ukraine under Nazi occupation
• The struggle against bureaucracy
  • Anti-Communists against `bureaucracy'
  • Bolsheviks against bureaucratization
  • Reinforce public education
  • Regularly purge the Party
  • The struggle for revolutionary democracy
  • The Party elections in 1937: a `revolution'
• The Great Purge
  • How did the class enemy problem pose itself?
    • Boris Bazhanov
    • George Solomon
    • Frunze
    • Alexander Zinoviev
  • The struggle against opportunism in the Party
  • The trials and struggle against revisionism and enemy infiltration
    • The trial of the Trotskyite-Zinovievist Centre
      • Trotsky and counter-revolution
        • `Destroy the communist movement'
        • Capitalist restoration is impossible
        • In support of terror and insurrection
      • The Zinoviev--Kamenev--Smirnov counter-revolutionary group
    • The trial of Pyatakov and the Trotskyists
      • Sabotage in the Urals
      • Sabotage in Kazakhstan
      • Pyatakov in Berlin
      • Sabotage in Magnitogorsk
    • The trial of the Bukharinist social-democratic group
      • The February 1937 decision to purge
      • The Riutin affair
      • Bukharin's revisionism
      • Bukharin and the enemies of Bolshevism
      • Bukharin and the military conspiracy
      • Bukharin and the question of the coup d'état
      • Bukharin's confession
      • From Bukharin to Gorbachev
    • The Tukhachevsky trial and the anti-Communist conspiracy within the army
      • Plot?
      • The militarist and Bonapartist tendency
      • Vlasov
      • Solzhenitsyn
      • A clandestine anti-Communist organization in the Red Army
  • The 1937--1938 Purge
  • The rectification
  • The Western bourgeoisie and the Purge
• Trotsky's rôle on the eve of the Second World War
  • The enemy is the new aristocracy, the new Bolshevik bourgeoisie
  • Bolshevism and fascism
  • Defeatism and capitulation in front of Nazi Germany
  • Trotsky and the Tukhachevsky plot
  • Provocations in the service of the Nazis
  • Trotsky encouraged terrorism and armed insurrection
• Stalin and the anti-fascist war
  • The Germano-Soviet Pact
  • Did Stalin poorly prepare the anti-fascist war?
  • The day of the German attack
  • Stalin and the Nazi war of annihilation
  • Stalin, his personality and his military capacities
    • Stalin, the `dictator'
    • Stalin, the `hysteric'
    • Stalin, of `mediocre intelligence'
    • Stalin's military merits
• From Stalin to Khrushchev
  • The U.S. takes up where Nazi Germany left off
    • Gehlen, the Nazi, and the CIA
    • The nuclear bomb against the Soviet Union
    • Anti-imperialist struggle and the struggle for peace
    • Tito's revisionism and the United States
  • Stalin against opportunism
    • Bourgeois tendencies in the thirties
    • Weaknesses in the struggle against opportunism
    • Beria's and Khrushchev's revisionist groups
    • Stalin against the future Khrushchevism
  • Khrushchev's coup d'état
    • Beria's intrigues
    • Stalin's death
    • Khrushchev's intrigues against Beria
    • The `rehabilitated' enemies
    • Khrushchev and the pacific counter-revolution
• References
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6