Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should the Soviet Union be used as a base? Stalin is even plainer. In one of his basic doctrinal writings, which has been republished in millions of copies, in many languages, right up to the present, he says: ". . . The development of world revolution will be the more rapid and thorough, the more effective the aid rendered by the first Socialist country [Russia] to the workers . . . of all other countries. In what should this aid be expressed? . . . The 'victorious proletariat' of the one country [here he quotes Lenin] . . . after organizing its own Socialist production, should stand up . . . against...
Against this, Stalin's interviews with Roy Howard (1936) and Harold King of Reuters (1943), purporting to disavow world revolutionary aims, can only appear as eyewash, and that is just how Historicus explains them. The interviews, he says, "do not really contradict the strategic aim of world revolution because they refer to a temporary tactic...
Historicus emphasizes that Stalin, in applying his abstract theory, is ever ready to engage in flexible tactics. He does not hold, like a narrow doctrinaire, that the objective preconditions of revolution are a fixed quantity. Rather, these preconditions are "interdependent variables which are to be manipulated to satisfy just one equation...
...Stalin's grand, flexible strategy is, Historicus says, to make Russia a base to support two movements-the proletariat of the West and the anti-imperialist movements for national liberation in the East-merging them into [Stalin's phrase] "a single world front against the world front of imperialism...
...miracles, Chiang Kai-shek was beaten. Most (if not all) of China would soon be added to the eleven countries or parts of countries run by the Communists. Control of all China, together with the areas he already held, would place 40% of the world's population in Stalin's grasp...