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Stalin and the Soviet Communist Party

Stalin and the Soviet Communist Party

By Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov

Praeger (for the Institute for the Study of the U.S.S.R.), 1959, 379 pp.

An awkwardly organized study, based on personal experiences as well as research, of the Stalinization of the C.P.S.U. The author was a Party member and functionary until the great purge of 1937.