Erik van Ree is a lecturer at the Institute for East European Studies of the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on the history of the USSR and on world communism, including books on Stalin's Korean Policy, and on the Soviet Politburo.

'Erudite, meticulously researched and full of interesting detail. ...Get hold of a copy.' - Mark Sandle, De Montfort University'To many a contemporary mind, a discussion of the political thought of Stalin may seem one of the last subjects to take into serious consideration. ... If the book by Erik van Ree teaches us one thing, it is that there is indeed ample reason to take Stalin seriously as a thinker. And this is not so much because of his origniality as an 'innovator' of Marxism but, on the contrary, as its faithful developer.' -

• Introduction 1. Jacobinism 2. Marxism, Leninism and the State 3. Proletarian revolution in a backward country 4. Marxist nationalism 5. Stalin. The years before October 6. The years under Lenin 7. Socialism in one country 8. Stalinist economics 9. The sharpening of the class struggle 10. Total unity 11. Stalin and the state 12. The cult of personality 13. Stalin on society, culture and science 14. Socialist in content, national in form 15. Did Stalin 'betray' the world revolution? 16. Revolutionary patriotism 17. The philosophy of revolutionary patriotism Conclusion Bibliography

Erik van Ree is a lecturer at the Institute for East European Studies of the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on the history of the USSR and on world communism, including books on Stalin's Korean Policy, and on the Soviet Politburo.

'Erudite, meticulously researched and full of interesting detail. ...Get hold of a copy.' - Mark Sandle, De Montfort University'To many a contemporary mind, a discussion of the political thought of Stalin may seem one of the last subjects to take into serious consideration. ... If the book by Erik van Ree teaches us one thing, it is that there is indeed ample reason to take Stalin seriously as a thinker. And this is not so much because of his origniality as an 'innovator' of Marxism but, on the contrary, as its faithful developer.' -

• Introduction 1. Jacobinism 2. Marxism, Leninism and the State 3. Proletarian revolution in a backward country 4. Marxist nationalism 5. Stalin. The years before October 6. The years under Lenin 7. Socialism in one country 8. Stalinist economics 9. The sharpening of the class struggle 10. Total unity 11. Stalin and the state 12. The cult of personality 13. Stalin on society, culture and science 14. Socialist in content, national in form 15. Did Stalin 'betray' the world revolution? 16. Revolutionary patriotism 17. The philosophy of revolutionary patriotism Conclusion Bibliography