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Reexamines the origins and meaning of Stalinism, and explains how Perestroika signifies a break from Stalinism because of its attack on ideas of uniformity and its return to human values and common sense
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Geared to a Soviet readership, this humanistic brief for perestroika by a Soviet philosopher offers a salubrious self-examination of the crimes of Stalinism. Tsipko calls for economic democracy, open dialogue, free-market reforms and toleration of personal diversity. He condemns Karl Marx's justification of violence, his contempt for the "peasantry" (farmers) and opposition to religion. But he glosses over the damage done to his country by Lenin, whom he gingerly criticizes yet keeps on a pedestal, and demonizes Trotsky and other "leftist adventurers." Tsipko can be long-winded, yet his critique offers us an intriguing on-the-scenes glimpse of current reappraisals in the Soviet Union.
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The author, a theorist at the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System, seeks to define the Stalinist variant of Marxism and assess its impact on Soviet society. Like most of the pro-Gorbachev wing of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Tsipko sees Stalinism as the source of the dehumanizing, anti-individualistic, and ultimately disastrous system forced on the Soviet Union in the 1930s. He holds Lenin relatively blameless, although he condemns "the moral relativism of Marx and Engels" for "justifying violence against people and the values and traditions of a civic society." Tsipko maintains that perestroika has liberated the Soviet people from Stalinism, which is, if not dead, terminally ill. Unpublishable five years ago, the book is a fine example of the range of debate permissible in the Soviet Union today. For informed laypersons and scholars.
- Kim H. Tunnicliff, Albion Coll., Mich.
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