non liberal
Joseph Stalin
1878–1953
Also known as: Stalin, स्टालिन
How Joseph Stalin is discussed in this archive
Authored 1 work in the archive.
Referenced in 9 other works — including बळीचे राज्य येणार आहे , The Indian Libertarian , and Agriculture in Asia .
In बळीचे राज्य येणार आहे : Joshi uses Stalin's collectivisation as the structural analogue to Nehruvian planning — both, in his reading, instances of an urban-industrial agenda extracting surplus from the peasantry at gunpoint or through price suppression.
In Agriculture in Asia : Stalin appears as the architect of autarkic policy in Clark's catalogue of cautionary failures, paired with Franco's Spain as a non-communist autarky that also suffered.
In The Indian Libertarian : Stalin figures as the embodiment of Soviet state violence that Khrushchev's own denunciations confirmed — used by the Clark-Rimanoczy piece to argue the USSR is not genuinely communist but a new tyranny that Indian fellow-travellers wilfully defend.
In A Democracy at War : Stalin is grouped with Khrushchev, Hitler, and Mao as authoritarian leaders whose openly declared goals India chose to ignore, illustrating the broader pattern of democratic naivety Masani critiques.
In Acharya N G Ranga: The Farmer’s Friend and Swatantra Party Stalwart : Stalin's regime is cited as the direct cause of Ranga's disillusionment with socialism: witnessing the oppression of Soviet peasants turned Ranga away from Marxist ideology.
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Primary works (3)
- बळीचे राज्य येणार आहे · 2010
- "Joshi argues, in the rendered pages, that the Corn Laws controversy, Stalin's collectivisation, and independent India's Nehruvian planning framework all share a common logic" — Stalin's collectivisation anchors a tri-national genealogy of anti-peasant industrialisation
- "he draws a pointed comparison between Stalin's collectivisation (which destroyed the kulak class) and Nehru's planning framework (which similarly subordinated farmers to an urban-industrial agenda)" — the kulak analogy is made explicit as the engine of Joshi's anti-Nehruvian indictment
- Agriculture in Asia · 1971
- "autarkic policies under Stalin and Franco are presented as cautionary failures" — Clark names Stalinist autarky alongside Maoist agriculture as evidence that trade-retreating regimes underperform export-oriented ones
- The Indian Libertarian · 1958
- "Khrushchev's admission of Stalinist crimes is cited as evidence of endemic state violence rather than aberration." — Stalin invoked as the proper-noun anchor for the USSR's documented brutality
- "Khrushchev's own denunciations of Stalin are used to show the system's brutality is structural, not incidental." — key-points distillation framing Stalin as systemic-not-aberrant
Excerpts (6)
- A Democracy at War
- "They are very frank, these gentlemen- Hitler, Stalin, Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung. They tell us what they are going to do, but we are so naïve that we will not believe them!" — Stalin is part of a list of authoritarian leaders used to indict Indian foreign-policy blindness
- Acharya N G Ranga: The Farmer’s Friend and Swatantra Party Stalwart
- "his belief in socialism was short-lived, as the Stalin regime's oppression of peasants and the initiation of Soviet land reforms such as forced collectivisation led to Ranga's departure from Marxist ideology." — Stalin's agrarian terror is identified as the pivotal event that broke Ranga's faith in socialism
- De-Stalinisation Versus Communism
- "Nikita Khrushchev's denouncement of Stalin and his criminal rule at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in 1956 remains an important milestone in the history of the now-discarded project." — Stalin's criminal rule is the starting point for the essay's analysis of whether de-Stalinisation is possible within the Communist framework
- Economics of Freedom
- "as had developed under Stalin. "We shall not allow it to happen," he kept repeating with great sincerity but with what appeared to me to be a singular lack of realism" — Stalin's totalitarian state is the cautionary historical reference point for Masani's warning about statism in India
- Farmers Need Freedom, Not a Guardian Angel
- "the kind of economic theory that prompted Stalin to send tanks against kulaks in Russia" — Joshi traces India's deliberate depression of farm prices back to the same agrarian-extractive logic that drove Stalinist collectivisation
- Socialism or State Capitalism
- "Stalin wanted to make dictatorship absolute and totalitarian and, therefore, made State Capitalism the exclusive form of economic development in the USSR" — Stalin presented as the decisive agent in transforming Soviet socialism into state capitalism