Scorched earth

Scorched earth: Stalin's reign of terror

by Baberowski, Jörg

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German scholar Jörg Baberowski is one of the world's leading experts on the Stalin era, but his work has seldom been translated into English. This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad violence with which Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts Stalinism as a cruel and deliberate attack on Russian society, driven by "totalitarian ambitions" and the goal of modernizing and rationalizing a backward people. Baberowski takes a twofold approach, emphasizing Stalin's personal role and responsibil…

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  • Full title :Scorched earth : Stalin's reign of terror / Jörg Baberowski ; translated by Steven Gilbert, Ivo Komljen, and Samantha Jeanne Taber.

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German scholar Jörg Baberowski is one of the world's leading experts on the Stalin era, but his work has seldom been translated into English. This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad violence with which Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts Stalinism as a cruel and deliberate attack on Russian society, driven by "totalitarian ambitions" and the goal of modernizing and rationalizing a backward people. Baberowski takes a twofold approach, emphasizing Stalin's personal role and responsibility as well as the continuity he sees in Communist aims and ideology since 1917. Unlike recent apologist accounts that focus on the challenges of modernization or on the operational complexities of managing the Soviet state, this hard-hitting analysis unequivocally locates the origins of the terror in the culture of violence and the techniques of power. Detailed, well-documented, and including many new details on the workings of the Stalinist state, this powerful work encompasses the dictator's brutal reign from his achievement of total power in 1929 to his death in 1953.--

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  • Publication Date:2016.

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  • Description:1 online resource (x, 500 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780300220575, 030022057X
  • oclc:ocn961437622
  • LC Classification:DK267
  • Dewey Decimal:947.084/2092

Table of Contents

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. What Was Stalinism?; 2. Imperial Spaces of Violence; 3. Pyrrhic Victories; 4. Subjugation; 5. Dictatorship of Dread; 6. Wars; 7. Stalin's Heirs; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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Subjects

Dictatorship Dictatorship -- Soviet Union Dictature -- URSS e-books Electronic books History HISTORY -- Eastern. -- Europe HISTORY -- Former Soviet Republics. -- … HISTORY -- Russia & the Former Soviet U… Livres numériques Politics and government Soviet Union Soviet Union -- Politics and government… Soviet Union -- Politics and government… Stalin, Joseph totalitarianism Totalitarianism -- History -- 20th cent… Totalitarisme -- Histoire -- 20e siècle URSS -- Politique et gouvernement -- 19… URSS -- Politique et gouvernement -- 19…

Writers

Baberowski, Jörg Gilbert, Steven, (Translator) Komljen, Ivo Taber, Samantha Jeanne

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