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Stalin.
- Title
- Stalin. Volume 1, Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928 / Stephen Kotkin.
- Author
- Kotkin, Stephen
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Press, 2014.
- ©2014
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Kotkin, Stephen.
- Description
- xiii, 949 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- In his biography of Stalin, Kotkin rejects the inherited wisdom about Stalin's psychological makeup, showing us instead how Stalin's near paranoia was fundamentally political and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution's structural paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. At the same time, Kotkin posits the impossibility of understanding Stalin's momentous decisions outside of the context of the history of imperial Russia.
- Alternative Title
- Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928
- Subjects
- Heads of state
- Dictators
- Soviet Union
- Political culture
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
- Heads of state > Soviet Union > Biography
- Dictators > Soviet Union > Biography
- HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
- 1917-1953
- Politics and government
- Soviet Union > History > 1925-1953
- Biographies
- Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1917-1936
- History
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State
- Political culture > Soviet Union > History
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 > Psychology
- Psychology
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 863-912) and index.
- Contents
- Part I. Double-headed eagle -- An imperial son -- Lado's disciple -- Tsarism's most dangerous enemy -- Constitutional autocracy -- Part II. Durnovó's revolutionary war -- Stupidity or treason? -- Kalmyk savior -- 1918: Dada and Lenin -- Class war and a party-state -- Voyages of discovery -- Part III. Collision -- Dictator -- "Remove Stalin" -- Faithful pupil -- Triumphant debacle -- A trip to Siberia -- Coda: If Stalin had died.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-8657
- ISBN
- 9781594203794
- 1594203792
- OCLC
- 893940963
- Author
- Kotkin, Stephen, author.
- Title
- Stalin. Volume 1, Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928 / Stephen Kotkin.
- Publisher
- New York : Penguin Press, 2014.
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 863-912) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1917-1953
- Added Author
- Sequel: Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin : waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-8657