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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Introduction: Stalinization and Communist Historiography; N. LaPorte , K. Morgan & M. Worley The Stalinization of the KPD: Old and New Views; H. Weber Stalinization: Balance Sheet of a Complex Notion; B. Studer The Central Bodies of the Comintern: Stalinization and Changing Social Composition; P. Huber The Impact of 'Bolshevization' and 'Stalinization' on French and German Communism: A Comparative View; A. Wirsching Paul Levi and the Turning Point of 1921: Bolshevik Emissaries and International Discipline in the Time of Lenin; J-F. Fayet 'Kings among their subjects'? Ernst Thälmann, Harry Pollitt and the Leadership Cult as Stalinization; N. LaPorte & K. Morgan Stalinization and the Communist Party of Italy; A. Agosti The Spanish Civil War and the Routes of Stalinization; G. Hermann Finnish Communism, Bolshevization and Stalinization; T. Saarela To Make the Nation or to Break It: Communist Dilemmas in Two Interwar Multinational States; B. Fowkes Testing the Limits: Stalinization and the New Zealand and British Communist Parties; K. Taylor & M. Worley From Bolshevism to Stalinism: Communism and the Comintern in Ireland; E. O'Connor 'Their unCommunist Stand': Chicago's Foreign Language Speaking Communists and the Question of Stalinization, 1928-35; R. Storch The Profintern and the 'Syndicalist Current' in the United States; E. P. Johanningsmeier X