Dimitrov And Stalin

Author : Georgi Dimitrov
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300080216

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Dimitrov and Stalin by Georgi Dimitrov Pdf

Bulgarian Georgi Dimitrov, Stalin's close confidant and trusted ally, served as secretary general of the Communist International (Comintern) from 1934 to its dissolution in 1943. In this collection of more than fifty top-secret letters, the real workings of the Comintern emerge clearly for the first time. Drawn from classified Soviet archives only recently opened to Russian and American scholars, these letters offer unique insights into Soviet foreign policy and Stalin's attitudes and intentions while the Great Terror of the 1930s was in progress and in the years leading up to the Second World War. Annotated by the editors to provide the historical context in which these letters were written, the collection is vivid and startlingly significant. The letters confirm the complete dependence of the Comintern on the Kremlin, while also exposing bureaucratic maneuvering, backbiting, and jockeying for influence. These messages cast much light on the Soviet confusion about policies toward foreign Communist parties, and they uncover the extent to which Stalin shaped the Comintern. Stalin's perspectives on America, French communism, and the Spanish Civil War are recorded, as are his differences with Mao Zedong and with Marshal Tito at important turning points. With the publication of these letters, the history of twentieth-century communism gains authentic evidence about a critical decade.

Author : Marietta Stankova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857712912

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Georgi Dimitrov by Marietta Stankova Pdf

Georgi Dimitrov burst onto the international scene in 1933 as one of the Comintern operatives in Germany accused of the Reichstag fire. The Bulgarian Communist's spirited self-defence in the resulting Leipzig Trial made him a celebrity among Communists worldwide - particularly in the Soviet Union, where he became Secretary General of the Comintern after his acquittal. Popular opinion holds that this 'whirlwind', who defied Goering and the Nazis in full view of the world, subsequently became little more than a rubber stamp for Stalin. This lucid and fascinating biography - the first in English - reveals a more multifaceted treatment of Dimitrov, highlighting especially the deep complexity of his relationships with his two greatest political allies: Stalin and Tito. With unique authority drawn from extensive archival research, Marietta Stankova strips away decades of conventional wisdom to reveal Georgi Dimitrov in all his roles: as labour agitator, Leipzig Trial icon, loyal Stalinist and Pan-Balkan visionary. Dimitrov entered radical politics at an early age and was a central figure in the formation of the Bulgarian Communist Party in 1919. A failed uprising forced him into exile and brought him in disfavour in his Party - which he counteracted through loyal inconspicuous service at the Comintern, where he was eventually put in charge of the Western European section. Following his spectacular clash with the Nazis in the Leipzig Trial, Dimitrov was appointed General Secretary of the Comintern. In this post, Dimitrov was Communism's ambassador to dissidents and radicals the world over. At the same time, he was deeply implicated in the Soviet political purges of the latter 1930s. Through these he also consolidated his leadership of his native Party but it was only in 1946, two years after the Bulgarian communists had seized power in the wake of World War II, that he was sent home to lead the new Bulgarian Communist government. Working against ill health and Stalin's often unpredictable behaviour, he remained committed to the establishment of Communism in Bulgaria and to upholding Soviet interests, even if this meant the destruction of one of his lifelong aspirations, a Balkan Federation. Using new and unpublished sources, Stankova brilliantly reconstructs the dilemmas that Dimitrov faced throughout his long and varied political career. This definitive and long-overdue biography makes a major contribution to the history of Bulgaria and of the Balkans as a whole, as well as to the field of Communist Studies.

Author : Georgi Dimitrov
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300133851

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The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949 by Georgi Dimitrov Pdf

Georgi Dimitrov (1882–1949) was a high-ranking Bulgarian and Soviet official, one of the most prominent leaders of the international Communist movement and a trusted member of Stalin’s inner circle. Accused by the Nazis of setting the Reichstag fire in 1933, he successfully defended himself at the Leipzig Trial and thereby became an international symbol of resistance to Nazism. Stalin appointed him head of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1935, and he held this position until the Comintern’s dissolution in 1943. After the end of the Second World War, Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria and became its first Communist premier. During the years between 1933 and his death in 1949, Dimitrov kept a diary that described his tumultuous career and revealed much about the inner working of the international Communist organizations, the opinions and actions of the Soviet leadership, and the Soviet Union’s role in shaping the postwar Eastern Europe. This important document, edited and introduced by renowned historian Ivo Banac, is now available for the first time in English. It is an essential source for information about international Communism, Stalin and Soviet policy, and the origins of the Cold War.

Author : V. Dimitrov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230591066

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Stalin's Cold War by V. Dimitrov Pdf

This work offers a major new interpretation of the Stalin's role in the gestation of the Cold War. Based on important new evidence, Dimitrov reveals Stalin's genuine efforts to preserve his World War II alliance with the US and Britain and to encourage a degree of cooperation between communists and democratic parties in Eastern Europe.

Author : Kevin McDermott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230204782

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Stalin by Kevin McDermott Pdf

Stalin's massive impact on Soviet history is often explained in terms of his inherent evil, personality defects and power lust. While not rejecting these notions, Kevin McDermott argues that Stalin's thoughts and actions are best contextualised in the inter-relationship between war and revolution in the first half of the twentieth century. The author presents the case for taking the Soviet dictator seriously as a Marxist revolutionary whose fundamental beliefs and modus operandi were forged in the cauldron of civil and international wars, ideologically driven class wars and revolutionary upheavals associated with the 'age of catastrophe', 1914-45. Only by so doing can the complex motivations for such cataclysmic events as the Great Terror be adequately addressed. Incorporating recently declassified materials from the former Soviet Party archives, this new appraisal of Stalin also provides a critical review of the latest western and Russian historiography. It is essential reading for anyone studying the debates on one of the leading figures of Soviet history.

Author : Georgi Dimitrov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1961775107

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The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International by Georgi Dimitrov Pdf

Dimitrov's analysis lays bare Fascism as the natural progression of imperialism in periods of crisis of capital. In this important work, Dimitrov discusses the class character of vicious assault on working class people and the revolutionary movement. Being a leader during the rise of Hitler and Mussolini, he studied in great detail the development of Fascism as the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital. As we once again resist the rising tide of Fascism, Dimitrov's analysis is as important today as it was in 1935.

Author : Hiroaki Kuromiya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317867791

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Stalin by Hiroaki Kuromiya Pdf

This profile looks at how Stalin, despite being regarded as intellectually inferior by his rivals, managed to rise to power and rule the largest country in the world, achievieving divine-like status as a dictator. Through recently uncovered research material and Stalin’s archives in Moscow, Kuromiya analyzes how and why Stalin was a rare, even unique, politician who literally lived by politics alone. He analyses how Stalin understood psychology campaigns well and how he used this understanding in his political reign and terror. Kuromiya provides a convincing, concise and up-to-date analysis of Stalin’s political life.

Author : Stella Dīmītrova Blagoeva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Bulgaria
ISBN : UCAL:$B591732

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Dimitrov by Stella Dīmītrova Blagoeva Pdf

Author : Milovan Djilas
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0156225913

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Conversations with Stalin by Milovan Djilas Pdf

Content: Written from his experiences as a vice-president of Yugoslavia and aide to Tito, the author here records face to face meetingwith Stalin from 1944-1953. The author was imprisoned by the Yugoslav government from 1957-1961.

Author : Georgi Dimitrov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1961775220

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The United Front by Georgi Dimitrov Pdf

An excellent collection of speeches and articles by the General Secretary of the Communist International, Georgi Dimitrov, on the United Front and the fight against fascism and war. This selection of Dimitrov's speeches and articles is essential to understanding the United Front policy of the Communist International and the true character of fascism. This book is essential in modern times with the growth in many countries of the militant forces of fascism and fascist rhetoric. A must read for all those truly interested in the final defeat of fascism.

Author : Jonathan Brent
Publisher : Atlas & Company
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015077142712

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Inside the Stalin Archives by Jonathan Brent Pdf

To many people, Russia remains as enigmatic today as it did during the Iron Curtain era. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country had an opportunity to face its tortured past. Here, Brent asks - why didn't this happen? To answer such a question, he draws on 15 years of unprecedented access to high level Soviet archives. He shows readers a Russia where, in 1992, women sold used toothbrushes on the street to survive, yet now the shops are filled with luxury goods. Brent encounters Stalin's spectre through these changes and takes readers deep inside his archives.

Author : Peter Ruggenthaler
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498517447

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The Concept of Neutrality in Stalin's Foreign Policy, 1945–1953 by Peter Ruggenthaler Pdf

Drawing on recently declassified Soviet sources, this book sheds new light on the division of Europe in the aftermath of World War II. By tracing Stalin's attitude toward neutrality in international politics, Ruggenthaler provides important insights into the origins of the Cold War.

Author : B. Apor,J. Behrends,P. Jones,E. Rees
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230518216

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The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships by B. Apor,J. Behrends,P. Jones,E. Rees Pdf

The first book to analyze the distinct leader cults that flourished in the era of 'High Stalinism' as an integral part of the system of dictatorial rule in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Fifteen studies explore the way in which these cults were established, their function and operation, their dissemination and reception, the place of the cults in art and literature, the exportation of the Stalin cult and its implantment in the communist states of Eastern Europe, and the impact which de-Stalinisation had on these cults.

Author : Silvio Pons
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191054105

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The Global Revolution by Silvio Pons Pdf

The Global Revolution. A History of International Communism 1917-1991 establishes a relationship between the history of communism and the main processes of globalization in the past century. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, Silvio Pons analyses the multifaceted and contradictory relationship between the Soviet Union and the international communist movement, to show how communism played a major part in the formation of our modern world. The volume presents the argument that during the age of wars from 1914 to 1945, the establishment of the Soviet state in Russia and the birth of the communist movement had an enormous impact because of their promise of world revolution and international civil war. Such perspective appeared even more plausible in the aftermath of the Second World War and of revolution in China, which paved the way for the expansion of communism in the post-colonial world. Communism challenged the West in the Cold War - by means of anti-capitalist modernization and anti-imperialist mobilization - showing itself to be a powerful factor in the politicization of global trends. However, the international legitimacy of communism declined rapidly in the post-war era. Soviet power exposed its inability to exercise hegemony, as distinct from domination. The consequences of Sovietization in Europe and the break between the Soviet Union and China were the primary reasons for the decline of communist influence and appeal. Since communism lost its political credibility and cultural cohesion, its global project had failed. The ground was prepared for the devastating impact of Western globalization on communist regimes in Europe and the Soviet Union.

Author : Stephen Kotkin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1249 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735224483

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Stalin by Stephen Kotkin Pdf

“Monumental.” —The New York Times Book Review Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world’s largest peasant economy into “socialist modernity,” otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost. What it cost, and what Stalin ruthlessly enacted, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways. Building and running a dictatorship, with life and death power over hundreds of millions, made Stalin into the uncanny figure he became. Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 is the story of how a political system forged an unparalleled personality and vice versa. The wholesale collectivization of some 120 million peasants necessitated levels of coercion that were extreme even for Russia, and the resulting mass starvation elicited criticism inside the party even from those Communists committed to the eradication of capitalism. But Stalin did not flinch. By 1934, when the Soviet Union had stabilized and socialism had been implanted in the countryside, praise for his stunning anti-capitalist success came from all quarters. Stalin, however, never forgave and never forgot, with shocking consequences as he strove to consolidate the state with a brand new elite of young strivers like himself. Stalin’s obsessions drove him to execute nearly a million people, including the military leadership, diplomatic and intelligence officials, and innumerable leading lights in culture. While Stalin revived a great power, building a formidable industrialized military, the Soviet Union was effectively alone and surrounded by perceived enemies. The quest for security would bring Soviet Communism to a shocking and improbable pact with Nazi Germany. But that bargain would not unfold as envisioned. The lives of Stalin and Hitler, and the fates of their respective dictatorships, drew ever closer to collision, as the world hung in the balance. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 is a history of the world during the build-up to its most fateful hour, from the vantage point of Stalin’s seat of power. It is a landmark achievement in the annals of historical scholarship, and in the art of biography.