Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line

Hershel D. Meyer

The Khrushchev Report and the Crisis in the American Left

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First Published: 1956.
Transcription, Editing and Markup: Paul Saba
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Contents

Part I

Introduction

Toughness Was Sanctioned

The Origin of Revolutionary Violence

Was Stalin’s Way the Only Way?

The Nature of Stalin’s Affliction

The Stalin Cult and its Consequences

The Question of Co-Responsibility

The Villains of the Tragedy

The Corruption of Leninism

Civil Liberties in the Peoples Democracies

Upheavals in Poland and Hungary

Prospects for Socialism

Part II

The Crisis of the American Left

The New Look at the Soviet Union

The Overestimation of the War Danger

The Overestimation of the Danger of Fascism

New Look at the American Economy

A Split in the Party?

Theory – The Cure-All?

Sources of Ideological Errors

The Membership’ s Opinion

Some Concluding Remarks