| Contents |
Introduction: Saturn and her children -- 1. Stalinism as a bolt from the blue: the Jewish-Bolshevik contagion -- 2. Stalinism as a bolt from the blue: Big Brother -- 3. Stalinism as a bolt from the blue: the counter-Enlightenment project -- 4. Stalinism as historical necessity: Rubashov and terror -- 5. Stalinism as historical necessity: the ambiguities of Western Marxism -- 6. From Proletarian Jacobinism to Stalinist Thermidor -- 7. Stalinism as Thermidor: Western retreat and Eastern reconciliation -- 8. Escaping fate -- Appendix: Domenico Losurdo: a critical assessment of "Stalin: the history and critique of a black legend". |
| Abstract |
"This study examines the debates, history, and theory surrounding Stalinism and the Soviet Union. The author argues that the growing popularity of socialism in the United States calls for a renewed look at the legacy of Stalinism"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-338) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Greene, Doug Enaa. Stalinism and the dialectics of Saturn Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books [2023] 9781666930900 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022058566 |
| ISBN | 9781666930894 |
| ISBN | 166693089X hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
