Stalin. Volume 1, Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
New York : Penguin Press, 2014.
Format: Book
Description: xiii, 949 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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.
Subjects:
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936.
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936.
ISBN:
9781594203794 (hbk.)
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BIOGRAPHY Stalin, Joseph V.1 | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 863-912) and index.