Stalin
(Book)
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Published
New York : Penguin Press, 2014.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
949 pages : maps, illustrations ; 25 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
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Published
New York : Penguin Press, 2014.
Language
English
UPC
40024210881
Notes
General Note
Volume 1. Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world. It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band seizes control of the country in the aftermath of total world war, the former seminarian ruthlessly dominates the new regime until he stands as absolute ruler of a vast and terrible state apparatus, with dominion over Eurasia. While still building his power base within the Bolshevik dictatorship, he embarks upon the greatest gamble of his political life and the largest program of social reengineering ever attempted: the collectivization of all agriculture and industry across one sixth of the earth. Millions will die, and many more millions will suffer, but the man will push through to the end against all resistance and doubts."--,Provided by publisher.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Biographies.
Dictators -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Political culture -- Soviet Union -- History.
Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.
Stalin, Joseph, -- 1878-1953
Stalin, Joseph, -- 1878-1953 -- Psychology.
Dictators -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Political culture -- Soviet Union -- History.
Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.
Stalin, Joseph, -- 1878-1953
Stalin, Joseph, -- 1878-1953 -- Psychology.