La era de Stalin

The author presents a new interpretation on the way of proceeding of the Soviet State, and its extreme violence. Many of the Stalinist practices - the state economy, surveillance, propaganda campaigns, and concentration camps - do not originate from Stalin, not even Russia, but were tools of government spread throughout Europe during the First World War. The Soviet system was configured precisely in those years of total war, with its practices of violence and mobilization, and these have since been the ashlars of the new political order. The leaders of the Communist Party, in turn, ruthlessly used those same practices to carry out their ideological agenda of economic and social transformation.