The Bolshevik tradition : Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev / [electronic resource]
Robert H. McNeal.
- 2d ed.
- Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1975]
- xi, 210 p. ; 21 cm.
- A Spectrum book .
First ed. published in 1963 under title: The Bolshevik tradition: Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-204) and index.
1: Lenin -- The young intelligent -- The quest for a party -- The crucible of revolution -- Failure in triumph -- Lenin and the Bolshevik tradition -- 2: From cottage to Kremlin -- Preserving the Monolith -- The age of Stalin: the myth and the machine -- The age of Stalin: terror and Utopia -- The age of Stalin: security and imperialism -- Stalin and the Bolshevik tradition -- 3: Khrushchev -- The education of a Stalinist -- The triumph of the first secretary -- Khrushchev's communism -- Khrushchev and the Bolshevik tradition -- 4: Brezhnev -- The ungrateful protégé -- Dekhrushchevization -- The primacy of the general secretary -- The Bolshevik tradition in perspective.