Product Description : Stalin's Master Narrative: A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course (Annals of Communism Series) A critical edition of the text that defined communist party ideology in Stalins Soviet UnionAn important persuasive and definitive accountWilliam A Clark EuropeAsia StudiesUnder Joseph Stalin The Short Course on the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Bolsheviks defined ideology in the USSR It was compulsory reading for every party member and governed all references to Soviet history not only in print but on the theatrical stage and silver screen as well Itwas quite literally the USSRs master narrativea hegemonic statement on history politics and MarxismLeninism that scripted Soviet society for a generation Abroad the book served as an ideological blueprint during the early Cold Warin Eastern Europe the Peoples Republic of China and throughout the communist world This critical edition of the Short Course edited by the historians David Brandenberger and Mikhail Zelenov exposes for the first time the enormous role that Stalin played in the development of this allimportant text as well as the unparalleled influence that the dictator wielded over the Soviet historical imagination( it is an used product )