... excavates two key phases in the Soviet experiment with a planned economy, namely, the New Economic Policy under Lenin and the Stalinist institution of the five-year plan, to explore the way in which planning could be thought of as directly incorporating a dimension of social and class conflict...

.... Culturalization was one way of translating ideology into the everyday; it was a kind of Stalinist civilizing process that taught Marxist-Leninist ideology together with table manners, mixing Stalin with Pushkin. Material possessions, crepe-de-chine dresses, old-fashioned dinnerware, and household decorations...

..., supplemented by the success of the Russian Revolution. This picture was shaken out of focus by the climactic event in the consolidation of Stalinist power over the international Communist movement, the Sixth Congress of the Communist International. The new image produced at this turning point was the one...

... left-wing P. I. R. members was genuine, but felt that its members had a record of failure and could never qualify as pure Stalinists. Therefore, by the time M. N. R. came to power, four different leftist parties oper­ ated in Bolivia: the Trotskyites, the most powerful; the right-wingers of the ex-P. I...

... it condemned, and opposed by the Stalinist state, which served as its model and inspiration. At the beginning of the break between Moscow and Belgrade, which officially occurred in June, 1948, when Tito and the Yugoslav Communist party were expelled from the Cominform, the struggle between the two Communist...

... thetic, at least in the literal sense of the word. Such works may be devoted to a discussion or a critique of the philosophical foundations of Stalinist, Soviet, or simply Marxist aesthetics (e.g., the theory of reflection).2 Others have analyzed the theoretical discourse of socialist realism as systems...

... and social development of Russia helped greatly to enliven the intel­ lectual climate of the time. Nor was this an isolated instance; a somewhat similar debate took place between the Westerners and Slavophiles. Any such public discussion is, of course, unthinkable in the monolithic atmosphere of Stalinist...

... as a condemnation of the Stalinized American s desperate effort at a totalized grasp of the political scene. In the transition from the ideality of the Emersonian vision to the desperation in the Stalinists appropriation, Anderson does not discriminate between their excesses. Instead of himself dis­ tinguishing...

... Atlantic Quarterly 94:3, Summer 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press, ccc 0038-2876/9550. 716 Greg Castillo for the Kazakh Council of Ministers. Both of these buildings merged an exotic vocabulary of details adapted from local folk art and archae­ ology with the Stalinist lingua franca...

... to address directly the conflict between individual ethics and freedom in confron­ tation with a specific political ideology, Darkness at Noon being di­ rectly concerned with the consequences of Stalinism and the Purge Trials of 1933-38, as well as with the validity of Marxist or Stalinist communism...

... in 1980 and that Aitmatov s novel revealed them to a greater extent than has been seen in the major Soviet writing of the past fifteen years. According to Clark, The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years basically follows the Stalinist master plot (described in her 1981 bestseller, The Soviet Novel...

... counters the negative relation to Russian tradition of the Pokrovsky school. In fact, Stalinist nationalism, as against Pokrovskian antinationalism and Marxian internationalism, has set Russian historians back on the path of traditional Russian historical develop­ ment. Stalin is much closer to V. O...

... annihilation of factionalism. When the party supported Stalin s program of socialism in one country against Trotsky s Permanent Revolu­ tion, to Ruth Fischer this was a result of the power of the Stalinist bureau­ cracy. And when, in November, 1927, Trotsky, Zinoviev, and Kamenev failed to arouse the populace...

... name leaps immediately to mind whenever one contemplates the literature on this controversial ism. In a sequel, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963: rev. ed., 1964), Arendt modified her theory to include the notion that banality was at the root of the totalitarian evil which Stalinist Russia and Hitler s...

... schedule. The lot of the Soviet historian has been particularly hazardous since Stalin s death. Having worked earlier under strict discipline, he now finds himself in a freer atmosphere in which many old values are in a state of flux. Revision of Stalinist history is clearly the order of the day...

... the latter is men­ tioned once in passing). The fact that these two men dominated the Third International for several years is immaterial; as un­ persons they have lost their right to be recorded in the history of the Third International. The prime example of Stalinist history, and the basis for much...

... for the workers guarantees and not handouts, granted by the good faith of the generous rulers and workplace democracy. From this point of view, Stalinism always fit rather poorly into the traditions of the left movement. At one time, the Stalinist ideo­ logues completely avoided the use of the term left, though...

... by the Stalinist dictatorship. After seven years of service as a devout and influential Communist, he left the party in disgust, having learned a bitter but salutary lesson. As he declares in Scum of the Farth: We had realised that Stalinism had soiled and compromised the Socialist Utopia, just as the Mediaeval...

... and the other states of the socialist bloc. Within the countries in question there are at least two tendencies amongst the leadership: one is conservative (and in some cases, neo-Stalinist) and the other real­ ist, sometimes a bit liberal and technocratic, with a distinct pen­ chant for efficiency in government...

... the party orbit. A few years later these writers were to form the nucleus of an important anti-Stalinist group that tried to mobilize opinion against the Moscow trials and, for a time, seemed on the verge of creating an independent left within the intellectual world. 18 Chamberlain reported pervasive...