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Stalin. Volume 1, Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928

By Joseph , Kotkin , Stephen;Stalin

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Year
2014
ISBN
9780698170100, 0698170105
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
23 MB (24374778 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1878-1953;Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- BioBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical;BIOGRAPHY &Joseph

Description

In this magnificent new 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 demonstrates the impossibility of understanding Stalin's momentous decisions outside of the context of the tragic history of imperial Russia.

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