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Bolshevism, Stalinism and the Comintern

Perspectives on Stalinization, 1917-53

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Editors:
  1. Norman LaPorte

    1. University of Glamorgan, UK

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  2. Kevin Morgan

    1. University of Manchester, UK

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  3. Matthew Worley

    1. University of Reading, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Stalinization and Communist Historiography

    • Norman LaPorte, Kevin Morgan, Matthew Worley
    Pages 1-21

  3. The Stalinization of the KPD: Old and New Views

    • Hermann Weber
    Pages 22-44

  4. Stalinization: Balance Sheet of a Complex Notion

    • Brigitte Studer
    Pages 45-65

  5. The Central Bodies of the Comintern: Stalinization and Changing Social Composition

    • Peter Huber
    Pages 66-88

  6. The Impact of ‘Bolshevization’ and ‘Stalinization’ on French and German Communism: A Comparative View

    • Andreas Wirsching
    Pages 89-104

  7. Paul Levi and the Turning Point of 1921: Bolshevik Emissaries and International Discipline in the Time of Lenin

    • Jean-François Fayet
    Pages 105-123

  8. ‘Kings among their subjects’? Ernst Thälmann, Harry Pollitt and the Leadership Cult as Stalinization

    • Norman LaPorte, Kevin Morgan
    Pages 124-145

  9. Stalinization and the Communist Party of Italy

    • Aldo Agosti
    Pages 146-166

  10. The Spanish Civil War and the Routes of Stalinization

    • Gina Herrmann
    Pages 167-187

  11. Finnish Communism, Bolshevization and Stalinization

    • Tauno Saarela
    Pages 188-205

  12. To Make the Nation or to Break It: Communist Dilemmas in Two Interwar Multinational States

    • Ben Fowkes
    Pages 206-225

  13. Testing the Limits: Stalinization and the New Zealand and British Communist Parties

    • Kerry Taylor, Matthew Worley
    Pages 226-244

  14. From Bolshevism to Stalinism: Communism and the Comintern in Ireland

    • Emmet O’Connor
    Pages 245-262

  15. ‘Their unCommunist Stand’: Chicago’s Foreign Language-Speaking Communists and the Question of Stalinization, 1928–35

    • Randi Storch
    Pages 263-282

  16. The Profintern and the ‘Syndicalist Current’ in the United States

    • Edward P. Johanningsmeier
    Pages 283-304

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 305-319
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About this book

Bringing together leading authorities and cutting edge scholars, this collection re-examines the defining concepts of Stalinism and the Stalinization odel.  The aim of the book is to explore how the common imperatives of a centralized movement were experienced across national boundaries.

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'...the book serves as a very welcome addition to the scholarship on international Communism in the first half of the twentieth century...the book deserves a wide readership.'- European Review of History

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Glamorgan, UK

    Norman LaPorte

  • University of Manchester, UK

    Kevin Morgan

  • University of Reading, UK

    Matthew Worley

About the editors

Matthew Worley is Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading.

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