Bolshevism, Stalinism and the Comintern ─ Perspectives on Stalinization, 1917-53

Bringing together leading authorities and cutting edge scholars, this collection re-examines the defining concepts of Stalinism and the Stalinization odel. The aim of the book is to explore how the common imperatives of a centralized movement were experienced across national boundaries.

NORMAN LAPORTE is Fellow in History at the University of Glamorgan. He is the author of The German Communist Party in Saxony, 1924?33 (2003) and a number of articles on German communism during the Weimar Republic. He is the co-author with Stefan Berger of Friendly Enemies: Britain and the GDR, 1949?90 (2005), and of a number of articles on related topics. He has also published on the role of foreign espionage in the former German Democratic Republic.

KEVIN MORGAN is Professor in Government at the University of Manchester. His publications on comparative communism and the left in Britain include two monographs, three edited collections and contributions to publications in Finland, France, Germany, Brazil, the UK and the USA. Most recently, he has published Bolshevism and the British Left I: Parties, Patrons and Russian Gold (2006); Bolshevism and the British Left II: The Webbs and Soviet Communism (2006); and (with Gidon Cohen and Andrew Flinn) Communists and British Society 1920?91 (2007).

MATTHEW WORLEY is Lecturer in History at the University of Reading. He has written widely on communist and British labour history, including two monographs Class against Class: A History of the Communist Party of Great Britain between the Wars (2002) and Labour Inside the Gate: A History of the British Labour Party between the Wars (2005). He has also edited a collection of studies examining communist politics in the late 1920s and early 1930s, In Search of Revolution: International Communist Parties in the Third Period (2004). He is currently editing a series of ?communist lives? for I. B. Tauris.