Ismail
25th May 2015, 17:10
https://archive.org/details/PeacefulCoexistence
The author, Andrew Rothstein, wrote two other books I've scanned in the past, Man and Plan in Soviet Economy (https://archive.org/details/ManAndPlanInSovietEconomy) (1948) and A History of the U.S.S.R. (https://archive.org/details/AHistoryOfTheU.S.S.R.) (1951), so here's another that I've also scanned.
Peaceful coexistence, although associated as a term in Soviet foreign policy with the post-1956 period, did not actually originate with Khrushchev. From 1952-55 there was a push by Malenkov to popularize the concept which had originated under Lenin and Stalin. Rothstein's book is a defense of the Malenkov-era conception of the term.
A year after the book came out, at the 20th Party Congress, Khrushchev "creatively developed" (i.e. bastardized) the concept, attacking as "dogmatic" the view held by Lenin and Stalin that wars between states were inevitable under imperialism and declaring that peaceful coexistence was the guiding line of Soviet foreign policy rather than proletarian internationalism. From this came various other deviations from Marxism-Leninism, such as the idea that capitalist states could peacefully "grow over" into socialism, that capitalist economic planning could adopt more and more elements of "socialism" by increasing trade with the "world socialist community" headed by the Soviet revisionists, etc.
For more info see: https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/documents/polemic/peaceful.htm
I figure this book has some interest as the Malenkov-era conception was still significantly closer to that under Lenin and Stalin than that under Khrushchev.
The author, Andrew Rothstein, wrote two other books I've scanned in the past, Man and Plan in Soviet Economy (https://archive.org/details/ManAndPlanInSovietEconomy) (1948) and A History of the U.S.S.R. (https://archive.org/details/AHistoryOfTheU.S.S.R.) (1951), so here's another that I've also scanned.
Peaceful coexistence, although associated as a term in Soviet foreign policy with the post-1956 period, did not actually originate with Khrushchev. From 1952-55 there was a push by Malenkov to popularize the concept which had originated under Lenin and Stalin. Rothstein's book is a defense of the Malenkov-era conception of the term.
A year after the book came out, at the 20th Party Congress, Khrushchev "creatively developed" (i.e. bastardized) the concept, attacking as "dogmatic" the view held by Lenin and Stalin that wars between states were inevitable under imperialism and declaring that peaceful coexistence was the guiding line of Soviet foreign policy rather than proletarian internationalism. From this came various other deviations from Marxism-Leninism, such as the idea that capitalist states could peacefully "grow over" into socialism, that capitalist economic planning could adopt more and more elements of "socialism" by increasing trade with the "world socialist community" headed by the Soviet revisionists, etc.
For more info see: https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/documents/polemic/peaceful.htm
I figure this book has some interest as the Malenkov-era conception was still significantly closer to that under Lenin and Stalin than that under Khrushchev.