The appeal to the "little people" according to Stalin, Nicolas Werth. The cause seemed to have been heard. Victorious Bolshevism ruined Russian populism and only the need to defend the old fatherland, in 1941, could give a populist color to the Red Army and its glo- rious Chief. However, Nicolas Werth tells us, at the worst moment of the Great Terror of collectivization, Stalin had already begun to count on the hatred of the «little people» for their new «little leaders» and to play with impunity at being the good Czar righting wrongs. Stalinism and populism: to continue the comparison is fruitful.
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