Bøker av Roy Medvedev

Presents the comprehensive and revealing investigation of Stalinism and political developments in the Soviet Union from 1922-1953. This book contains material on: purges in 1929-1931 and terror against the peasantry, the Kirov assassination and show trials, and, Trotsky's revolutionary activity and Stalin's involvement with his murder in Mexico.

Roy Medvedev demonstrates, in engrossing and sharp detail, how the vast gulf between Marxist-Leninist principles and official Soviet attitudes and procedures turned vital theory into hollow dogma. Focusing on the rigidities of official ideology, he makes brilliantly clear the ways in which an excessively centralized and cumbersome bureaucratic structure was disastrous for the economic, intellectual, and moral development of Soviet society-keeping it dangerously insular in an era of increasing internationalism.