non liberal
Joseph Stalin
1878–1953
Also known as: Stalin, स्टालिन
How Joseph Stalin is discussed in this archive
Referenced in 10 other works , including Minoo Masani's Disenchantment with the Soviet Economic Model - In Coversation with Zareer Masani , The Indian Libertarian , and Minoo Shroff on Doing Business in Nehru's India .
In Minoo Masani's Disenchantment with the Soviet Economic Model - In Coversation with Zareer Masani : Stalin's purges and gulags are referenced as the substantive object of Minoo Masani's disenchantment with the Soviet model.
In Minoo Shroff on Doing Business in Nehru's India : Stalin's Soviet reforms are invoked as the formative influence on Nehru's economic thinking during the early 1930s visit.
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.
Mentioned in (11)
Primary works (4)
- Minoo Masani's Disenchantment with the Soviet Economic Model - In Coversation with Zareer Masani · 2018
- "one didn't know the full extent then of Stalin's purges and the gulags and how many people were killed" · Discussion of repression Minoo glimpsed in the USSR
- "his, you know, reasons for disenchantment with the Soviet model and Stalin's purges" · Linking Stalin's repression to the argument of Socialism Reconsidered
- Minoo Shroff on Doing Business in Nehru's India · 2015
- "the reforms which Stalin brought in — though he shut people up and there was no freedom, what they wanted was some economic development" · Shroff acknowledging the trade-off Stalin's model embodied
- 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