Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Alec Nove began a popular account of Stalin and the post-Stalin Soviet Union with a list of the key questions that needed to be addressed to explain Stalinism and how it was modified after 1953.Alongside 'impersonal' factors, such as the impact of Russian history, the problems of carrying out a Marxist revolution in isolation and when the majority of the population were peasants not proletarians, there was the issue of personality.How vital was the impact of Stalin's peculiar personality in establishing Stalinism, or that of his successors in their alterations?It is reasonable to focus on the nature of the leader, but it is a particularly hard task for the researcher of the
Source: Contemporary European History
Author: IAN D. THATCHER
Institution: University of Ulster
Language: English
Topic: Soviet and Russian History
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2043957325