The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course
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The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course is a heavily propagandistic official textbook published in 1938 that presented a Stalinist interpretation of Soviet and party history for ideological education.
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| The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
history textbook
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ideological manual ⓘ propaganda work ⓘ |
| attributedAuthor | Joseph Stalin ⓘ |
| collectiveAuthor | Commission of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Joseph Stalin ⓘ |
| contains |
official interpretation of Civil War
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official interpretation of October Revolution ⓘ official interpretation of collectivization ⓘ official interpretation of industrialization ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| criticizedFor |
cult of personality around Stalin
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distortion of historical facts ⓘ erasure of political opponents from history ⓘ |
| describedAs |
heavily propagandistic
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official textbook ⓘ |
| distribution | mass circulation in the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| downplaysRoleOf |
Leon Trotsky
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other Old Bolsheviks later purged ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Bolshevik Party history
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role of Joseph Stalin in party history ⓘ |
| genre |
party history
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political history ⓘ |
| ideology |
Marxism–Leninism
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Stalinism ⓘ |
| influenced | communist parties worldwide ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| portrays |
Joseph Stalin as Lenin’s closest disciple
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Joseph Stalin ⓘ
surface form:
Joseph Stalin as the legitimate heir of Lenin
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| publicationYear | 1938 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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surface form:
Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
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| purpose |
ideological education
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party indoctrination ⓘ |
| reassessedAfter | Stalin’s death ⓘ |
| replacedBy | new party history narratives after Khrushchev’s Secret Speech ⓘ |
| statusAfter1956 | ideologically discredited in the USSR ⓘ |
| subject |
history of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
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history of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| supervisedBy | Joseph Stalin ⓘ |
| supports |
Stalinist line in the struggle against “deviationists”
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purges of alleged enemies of the people ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered | from the late 19th century to the 1930s ⓘ |
| translatedInto | many foreign languages ⓘ |
| usedAs | standard reference on party history in the late 1930s and 1940s USSR ⓘ |
| usedFor |
education in higher educational institutions
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education in party schools ⓘ political education in the USSR ⓘ training party cadres ⓘ |
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