Author: Spriano, Paolo
Title: Stalin and the European Communists
Description: London, Verso, (1985). orig.boards. 22x14cm, (2),313 pp, Translated by Jon Rothschild.. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: A Million or More; The Movement's Advance Guard; The Failure of "Organic Unity"; The Great Terror; Trotsky & the Fourth International; The Munich Capitulation; The 'Short Course': Compass of Communism; The German- Soviet Pact; "If War Breaks Out..."; The Comintern Conforms; The Soviet Union's Strange Neutrality; Trotsky's Last Battle; The Surprising Surprise of 22 June; Two Camps in an Ideological War; Under the Banner of National Unity; The Dissolution of the Comintern; Spheres of Interest & the Peoples of Europe; Revolution Blocked in the West? Communists Proliferate; A Party Old & New; The Chimera of Organic Unity; 'New Roads' to Socialism; The Cold War Arrives; The Cominform: A New Freeze; Conclusion.

Keywords: Communist International, Communism, Political History, Party Parties, Soviet Union, Stalin Stalinism, European Europe, Communists, Comintern