At the height of his cult of personality in 1938, Stalin deleted almost all references to his prerevolutionary career within the Bolshevik underground from the canonical Short Course on party history. Recognizing the challenge that this editing poses to traditional understandings of the personality cult, this article analyzes Stalin’s excisions from this all-important text and then looks to recent research by Ronald Grigor Suny, Stephen Kotkin, Erik van Ree, Ol’ga Edel’man and others in order to explain the peculiar nature of this official historical narrative.

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斯大林及其在革命前布尔什维克地下组织中所扮演角色的官方历史的沉默

1938 年，在他个人崇拜的高峰期，斯大林从规范的党史短期课程中删除了几乎所有关于他在布尔什维克地下革命前职业生涯的提及。认识到这种编辑对个人崇拜的传统理解构成的挑战，本文分析了斯大林从这本非常重要的文本中删减的内容，然后着眼于 Ronald Grigor Suny、Stephen Kotkin、Erik van Ree、Ol'ga Edel'man 的最新研究和其他人，以解释这种官方历史叙述的特殊性质。