What is Communism?

Japanese: 《共産主義とは何か》 - きょうさんしゅぎとはなにか
What is Communism?

…From this point on, criticism of Stalin was no longer limited to the party elite, but was widespread among the Soviet public, as can be seen in works such as Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago (1973) and Medvedev's In Search of History's Judgment (1972, translated into Japanese as What is Communism?). In particular, the "re-examination of history" of perestroika marked the beginning of a full-scale re-examination of the Stalinist regime itself, which eventually led to criticism of Soviet socialism itself. …

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Japanese:

…スターリン批判はこれ以後,党エリートの側からの限定された批判ではなく,ソ連邦の公衆からの広範な批判となっていることは,ソルジェニーツィンの《収容所群島》(1973)やメドベージェフの《歴史の審判を求めて》(1972。邦訳《共産主義とは何か》)の著作にもうかがうことができる。とくにペレストロイカの〈歴史の見直し〉でスターリン体制そのものの本格的見直しが始まり,これは遂にはソ連社会主義そのものへの批判へと向かうこととなった。…

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