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Stalinization: Balance Sheet of a Complex Notion
| The paper intends to discuss both the advantages and limitations of one of the most elaborated early historiographical conceptualisation of Stalinism, that is Hermann Weber’s model, highlighting certain blind spots. Empirically, I shall be drawing on the French and Swiss cases. I then want to introduce other approaches to Stalinisation developed in recent years. These stress the cultural, indeed subjective, aspect of the links between the Comintern and its national sections, from the point of view of both discourse and practice. Stalinism figures here not only as historical epoch and political system, but also as representing a social and cultural space.
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