Stalin
"Hiroaki Kuromiya argues that the key to understanding Stalin lies in the fact that he lived solely for the purpose of shaping the body politic through the pursuit and exercise of power. Whatever private emotions Stalin had - whether affection, lust, hatred, or vindictiveness - he channelled to political ends and subsumed in his quest for power. Even ordering the deaths of people close to him evoked no special emotion because he deemed it necessary for the higher order. Kuromiya lucidly and sys…
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- Full title :Stalin / Hiroaki Kuromiya.
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"Hiroaki Kuromiya argues that the key to understanding Stalin lies in the fact that he lived solely for the purpose of shaping the body politic through the pursuit and exercise of power. Whatever private emotions Stalin had - whether affection, lust, hatred, or vindictiveness - he channelled to political ends and subsumed in his quest for power. Even ordering the deaths of people close to him evoked no special emotion because he deemed it necessary for the higher order. Kuromiya lucidly and systematically explains Stalin's use of terror as a political action - how Stalin viewed political terror, why he used terror so extensively, and how he felt about the deaths of millions." "Drawing on the author's extensive research into recently uncovered documents on Stalin's life, and reflecting the current state of knowledge in the field, this concise biography untangles the enigma of Stalin and elucidates his political thought and action. The world order changed irreversibly with the establishment of the Soviet Union. Kuromiya argues that without understanding Stalin, one cannot understand the twentieth century."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Pearson/Longman
- Place of Publication:Harlow, England
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvii, 227 pages ; : 21 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0582784794, 9780582784796
- oclc:ocm60776883
- LC Classification:DK268.S8
- Dewey Decimal:947.084/2/092
Table of Contents
From Georgia to Russia -- Revolution and civil war -- Struggle for power -- 'Revolution from above' -- Famine and terror -- War -- Struggle for survival -- Twilight of the god.
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