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Soviet Succession Struggles Kremlinology and the Russian Question from Lenin to Gorbachev
Soviet Succession Struggles (1988) is a key study of the history, nature and development of Soviet politics and politicians from the earliest days of Soviet Russia up to the rise of Gorbachev. It examines the power struggles between opposing factions within the Soviet leadership, and identifies two main political standpoints that were always vying for ultimate control of the Communist State.
1. Forging the Stalin-Trotsky Myth: Trotsky’s Controversy with Boris Souvarine, 1929 2. How Lenin Fought: Problems of Original Communism, 1919–1921 3. Lenin versus Stalin, Trotsky versus Zinoviev 4. The Year 1923 5. Moscow and Leningrad, 1924–1928 6. Stalin and Alternance: The Second Centrism, 1929–1933 7. The Russian Question, the Purges and Alternance, 1933–1939 8. The Third Centrism: the Rise of Kremlinology, 1940–1964 9. Epilogue: Suslov and Alternance, 1964–1982 10. Conclusion
Biography
Anthony D'Agostino
