Stalin: A Study in History and Personality

FAIN: FA-11086-75

Robert Tucker
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ 08540-5228)

To elucidate the role of Stalin and Stalin s personality trom 1929 until his death in 1953. To study his role in the Bolshevik regime and Soviet order after the Russian Revolution, both of which gave way to his terroristic despotism. One part of the study has been published: Stalin as Revolutionary 1879-1929: A Study in History and Personality. Present work will require 2 volumes: 1) Stalin as dictator 1929-1935, and 2) the war and postwar period with emphasis on Stalin and international relations of the Cold War. Total conception of study is three-fold: Stalin and the Communist movement; Stalin and Russia; and, Stalin and the world. Project will endeavor to develop the phenomena of dictatorship in human terms and to see