Guardian of Stalinist orthodoxy | IMGpapers 1980

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MIKHAIL SUSLOV. who died last Monday at the age of 79, was the Soviet leadership's guardian of Stalinist orthodoxbeen a key figure in As such, he had determining the ma. jor Soviet policy decisions for a quarter of a century.

He was the one person in the Politburo who pertinuity of policy of the soviet bureaucracy end in particular guarded the Marxism - Leninism' which has alienated generations of East European youth from Marxism.

Suslov's personal criminal testory to the criminal history the bureaucracy. In the 1930s ne was a member of the party's control commisSUPE which helped prepare of the purges. In the in charge of NKVD troops who carried out the deporof whole nationalities Caucasians and Lithuanians.

In the late 1940s he was in charge of the campaign against Tito in the Cominform, when official Soviet ideology characterised the *TitoTrotskysists* (see the British Communist Party publication From Trotsky Tito by James Klugman).

opposed all Kruschov's moves towards cultural liberalisation and "de-Stalinisation", and played key role ruschov's removal. Deeply implicated in the decisions invade Hungary and enough Mikhail Suclos turned up in Warsaw in 1981, to urge orthodoxy Polish communists. repression) on the More than anyone else, Susiov represented the self- consciousness of the burcaucracy nad a reputation for being West sionisso toles con masionism'. tion neatly represents the self-interest of the bureaucracy, resting on the social relations of non-capitalist but Icaring all forms of independent and critical thought.

The Soviet version of Marxism, encapsulated in the "manuals' like 'Fundamentals of MarxismLeninism' which have been used to train generatons young munists all over the world was done une greatest пат to the ability of Marxists to counter bourgeois and petty bourgeois ideologies It has cabled all the ideologues of capitalism to present Marxism as a noncritical and dead religious ideology. While the communist parties in the West Suslov together with Brezhnev can now allow the luxury of their young intellectual: playing fast and loose with all sorts of theorists above all Gramsci), no such luxury is available to the Shout party. Once critica thought ther

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