Bolshevism, Stalinism and the Comintern : perspectives on Stalinization, 1917-53 / edited by Norman LaPorte, Kevin Morgan and Matthew Worley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Stalinization and communist historiography / Norman LaPorte, et al. -- The Stalinization of the KPD : old and new views / Hermann Weber -- Stalinization : balance sheet of a complex notion / Brigitte Studer -- The central bodies of the Comintern : Stalinization and changing social composition / Peter Huber -- The impact of "Bolshevization" and "Stalinization" on French and German communism : a comparative view / Andreas Wirsching -- Paul Levi and the turning point of 1921 : Bolshevik emissaries and international discipline in the time of Lenin / Jean-Francois Fayet -- "Kings among their subjects"? : Ernst Thalmann, Harry Pollitt and the leadership cult as Stalinization / Norman LaPorte and Kevin Morgan -- Stalinization and the communist party of Italy / Aldo Agosti -- The Spanish Civil War and the routes of Stalinization / Gina Hermann -- Finnish communism, Bolshevization and Stalinization / Tauno Saarela -- To make the nation or to break it : communist dilemmas in two interwar multinational states / Ben Fowkes -- Testing the limits : Stalinization and the New Zealand and British communist parties / Kerry Taylor and Matthew Worley -- From Bolshevism to Stalinism : communism and the Comintern in Ireland / Emmet O'Connor -- "Their unCommunist stand" : Chicago's foreign language-speaking communists and the question of Stalinization, 1928 - 35 / Randi Storch -- The Profintern and the "syndicalist current" in the United States / Edward P. Johanningsmeier.