Stalin by Domenico Losurdo
History and Critique of a Black Legend
A revisionist reassessment that challenges dominant Western portrayals of Stalin as a one-dimensional tyrant, placing his policies and the brutalities of the Soviet period in the context of civil war, rapid industrialization, international isolation, and perceived threats from capitalist powers; it concedes responsibility for repression, purges and catastrophic famines while arguing these events have often been decontextualized or exaggerated by anti-communist historiography, and uses archival material and comparative perspective (including Western imperial violence) to interrogate the moral and political complexity of Soviet history and the tension between revolutionary aims and authoritarian practice.
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- 2004
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- Italian
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- Italian
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- Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend
- Stalin: storia e critica di una leggenda nera
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