16 juin 1990 - "Stalinism as Revolution from Above" -- Robert Tucker

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Part of the revisionist tradition that looks at social history. Argues that Stalinism is "revolution from above" drawing from Russian imperial history -- rather than an entirely new society, this breaks from Leninism and returns to the old status quo by imposing a new order of society from the top. Historical continuity is the logic of Stalinism