Vindicating Stalin: Responding to Lefebvre

Autor/in	Malott, Curry
Titel	Vindicating Stalin: Responding to Lefebvre
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 15 (2017) 4, S.441-459 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1478-2103
DOI	10.1177/1478210316676002
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Social Systems; Ideology; Leaders; Criticism; Misconceptions; European History; Marxian Analysis; Russia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Social system; Soziales System; Ideologie; Fachleiter; Kritik; Missverständnis; Marxism; Marxismus; Russland
Abstract	No significant scholarship in educational studies has focused on Lefebvre's engagement with socialist state theory and his position against Stalin. As a result, when Lefebvre's thoughts on the state and on actually existing socialism are mentioned, they are engaged completely uncritically. This essay addresses this crucial gap. Toward these ends, I critically engage Lefebvre's work on one of the most important and central concepts of socialist state theory, the dictatorship of the proletariat. While Lefebvre embraces Lenin's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat, as spelled out in "The State and Revolution," following Khrushchev, he argues that Stalin distorted it in practice. Given the recent beginning stages of the vindication of Stalin as a result of previously unreleased Soviet-era state documents, this essay could not be more timely. In addition, the popularity of socialism among US youth also warrants a more honest appraisal of the historical context and contributions of Stalin. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01