Stephen Kotkin
Author
Physical Desc
xvii, 1154 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world's largest peasant economy into "socialist modernity," otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost. What it cost, and what Stalin ruthlessly enacted, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways. Building and running a dictatorship, with life and death power over...