Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction to new edition
Introduction to the first edition

Part 1: The Roots of the Problem
1. Social relations in the Soviet Union - Leon Trotsky
2. The 'Professional Dangers' of Power - Christian Rakovsky
3. What is the Bureaucracy? - Ernest Mandel
4. 'Socialism in Once Country' - Isaac Deutscher
5. Marxism and Primitive Magic - Isaac Deutscher
6. Trotsky's Interpretation of Stalinism - Perry Anderson
7. Was Lenin a Stalinist? - Marcel Liebman
8. Stalinist Ideology and Science - Michael Löwy

Part 2: Stalinism in Crisis
9. The Trotskyists in Vorkuta Prison Camp - 'M.B.'
10. Stalin and the Second World War - Fernando Claudin
11. The First Breach: The Excommunication of Yugoslavia - Josip Broz Tito et al.
12. Secret Report to the 20th Party Congress of the CPSU - Nikita S. Krushchev
13. Maoism, Stalinism and the Chinese Revolution - Roland Lew
14. The Peculiarities of Vietnamese Communism - Pierre Rousset
15. The Tragedy of Indian Communism - K. Damodaran
16. Hungary 1956: A Participant's Account - Nicholas Krasso
17. How They Crushed the Prague Spring of 1968 - Josef Smrkovsky
18. The Political Culture of Hoxha' Albania - Arshi Pipa
19. The Polish Vortex: Solidarity and Socialism - Oliver MacDonald
20. Solzhenitsyn: The Witness and the Prophet - Daniel Singer

Epilogue: The Heirs of Stalin - Yevgeni Yevtushenko

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About the Author

TARIQ ALI is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, and seven novels (translated into over a dozen languages) as well as scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of New Left Review and lives in London. His website is http://tariqali.org/.