CIECS   20730
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES Y ESTUDIOS SOBRE CULTURA Y SOCIEDAD
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Marxist Analyses of Stalinism
Autor/es:
GAIDO, DANIEL
Revista:
Science and Society
Editorial:
Guilford Press
Referencias:
Lugar: New York; Año: 2010 p. 99 - 107
ISSN:
0036-8237
Resumen:
Marcel van der Lindens recent book Western Marxism and the Soviet Union (Brill, 2007) deals mostly with what is usually referred to as Stalinism, i.e. the regime that developed in Russia in the aftermath of the civil war following the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917. The word Stalinism does not appear in the title, however, because the first chapter analyzes the early criticisms of the Soviet experiment, while it was still led by Lenin and Trotsky. The bulk of the work, however, deals with the nature of the Soviet Union after the consolidation of Stalins regime, and it is this aspect of van der Lindens book that we feel has not been adequately addressed by David Laibman in his review in this journal. In this article (which is part of an international symposium on Western Marxism and the Soviet Union) we attempt to assess van der Lindens contributions to Marxist historiography on Stalinism as well as its theoretical and empirical shortcomings.