The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin: A Study in Twentieth Century Revolutionary Patriotism

This study of Stalin's political thought makes full use of documentation that has only recently become available from the former Central Party Archive in Moscow as well as Stalin's private library with his handwritten marginal notes.

Introduction 1. Jacobinism 2. Marxism, Leninism and the State 3. Proletarian revolution in a backward country 4. Marxist nationalism 5. Stalin. The years before October 6. The years under Lenin 7. Socialism in one country 8. Stalinist economics 9. The sharpening of the class struggle 10. Total unity 11. Stalin and the state 12. The cult of personality 13. Stalin on society, culture and science 14. Socialist in content, national in form 15. Did Stalin 'betray' the world revolution? 16. Revolutionary patriotism 17. The philosophy of revolutionary patriotism Conclusion Bibliography