Proletarian Dictator in a Peasant Land:Stalin as Ruler 
Ronald Grigor Suny 
Alex .Manoogian !Professor of .Modern Armenian History 
The University of Michigan
 A,-paper,.prepared for the conference on , 
20th Century Russia - Germany in Comparative Perspective
 September 19-22, 1991 University of Pennsylvania

Any revolution from above is inevitably
revolution by dictatorship and despotism.
(Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1849)