Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Motyl, Alexander J.

Titel

“Sovietology in One Country” or Comparative Nationality Studies?

Ist Teil von

• Slavic review, 1989-04, Vol.48 (1), p.83-88

Ort / Verlag

New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1989

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Stalin must have known better. A non-Russian and the author of Marxism and the National Question, he was surely aware that his slogan of “socialism in one country“ obscured the USSR's profoundly multinational character. To the degree that he really built socialism, Stalin clearly did so not in one country but in many simultaneously. Indeed, not only did the Soviet republics lend one another what Soviet propagandists like to call disinterested proletarian assistance, but some, such as Kazakhstan, the Ukraine, and the countries of Central Asia, may have served as the involuntary base for the “primitive accumulation of capital” as well.