Tyrant As Editor

Tyrant As Editor

On Stalin’s fixation with editing. As editor of Pravda he rejected 47 articles by Lenin. “Stalin always seemed to have a blue pencil on hand, and many of the ways he used it stand in direct contrast to common assumptions about his person and thoughts. He edited ideology out or played it down, cut references to himself and his achievements, and even exhibited flexibility of mind, reversing some of his own prior edits”