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Introducing the Book Gandhi and Stalin
In his book Gandhi and Stalin, Louis Fischer turns the contrast between the ethical dervish and the unsmiling generalissimo into a defining choice: be a little Gandhi or a full-blown Stalin—a narrative of the moral, political, and economic perils on humanity's path.
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Why Gandhi alongside Stalin?
What do these two have in common?
We have more or less heard the name Gandhi, and the name Stalin as well.
One was an ethical dervish, with a famous smile on his lips, who is considered one of the architects of a non-violent world.
The other was a grim-faced generalissimo, who took hold of a country from amidst the ruins of the overthrow of Tsarism and the First World War, and shaped it as he wished.
Why should these two sit side by side?!
The author, Louis Fischer, is a prominent Sovietologist, Indologist, and Gandhi scholar who, in his book, places his first-hand accounts of these two figures alongside one another, blending them with the experience he has gained of actually existing socialism and the moral, political, and economic dangers facing humanity, and invites the reader to choose between the two:
Do you want to be a one-percent, fifty-percent, or one-hundred-percent Stalinist?
Or be a small Gandhi, to the extent of your means, but with your sleeves rolled up for this epoch-making choice of yours!
This is how Gandhi and Stalin become companions in a single book!
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The Book Gandhi and Stalin
Author: Louis Fischer
Translator: Gholamali Keshani
Publisher: Ghatreh
Publication Year: 2016
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