Stalin's World

Stalin's World: Dictating the Soviet Order

by Davies, Sarah, (Sarah Rosemary)

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"Drawing on declassified material from Stalin's personal archive, this is the first systematic attempt to analyze how Stalin saw his world--both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Stalin rarely left his offices and viewed the world largely through the prism of verbal and written reports, meetings, articles, letters, and books. Analyzing these materials, Sarah Davies and James Harris provide a new understanding of Stalin's thought process and leadership…

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  • Full title :Stalin's World : Dictating the Soviet Order / Sarah Davies and James Harris.

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"Drawing on declassified material from Stalin's personal archive, this is the first systematic attempt to analyze how Stalin saw his world--both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Stalin rarely left his offices and viewed the world largely through the prism of verbal and written reports, meetings, articles, letters, and books. Analyzing these materials, Sarah Davies and James Harris provide a new understanding of Stalin's thought process and leadership style and explore not only his perceptions and misperceptions of the world but the consequences of these perceptions and misperceptions"--

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  • Publication Date:©2014

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The Physical Object

  • Description:xv, 340 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780300182811, 0300182813
  • oclc:ocn875644434
  • LC Classification:DK268.S8
  • Dewey Decimal:947.084/2092

Table of Contents

Introduction: Stalin's Vision -- Part I. Information and Interpretation -- "Bolshevik" Leadership -- Spymania -- Capitalist Encirclement -- Part II. The Power of Stalin's Words -- The Leader Cult -- The Working Class -- Soviet Culture -- Conclusion.

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Subjects

15.70 history of Europe Biographies Chefs d'État -- Biographies -- URSS Communism -- Philosophy Communism -- Philosophy. -- Soviet Union Communisme -- Philosophie. -- URSS Comunisme -- Història. -- Unió Soviètica dictators Dictators -- Biography. -- Soviet Union Entscheidungsprozess Heads of state Heads of state -- Biography -- Soviet U… History HISTORY -- Russia & the Former Soviet U… Language and languages Lideratge polític -- Història. -- Unió … Political and social views Political culture Political culture -- History. -- Soviet… political leadership

Writers

Davies, Sarah, (Sarah Rosemary) Harris, James R.

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