Stalin

Stalin

by Kotkin, Stephen

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"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 …

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Stalin / Stephen Kotkin.

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"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."

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Penguin Press
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

  • Description:XIII pagina's, 10 ongenummerde pagina's kaarten, 949 pagina's, 32 pagina's foto's : : illustraties, kaarten ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781594203794, 1594203792
  • oclc:ocn904588587
  • LC Classification:DK268.S8
  • Dewey Decimal:B

Subjects

Biographies Chefs d'État -- Biographies -- URSS dictators Dictators -- Biography. -- Soviet Union Heads of state Heads of state -- Biography -- Soviet U… History Political culture Political culture -- History. -- Soviet… Politics and government Soviet Union Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 Soviet Union -- Politics and government… Soviet Union -- Politics and government… Stalin, Iosif, is Iosif Vissarionovič D… URSS -- Histoire -- 1925-1953 URSS -- Politique et gouvernement -- 19… URSS -- Politique et gouvernement -- 19…

Writers

Kotkin, Stephen

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