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Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
Product Details:
| Category: | Books |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 0300219784 |
| Title: | Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator The Cheap Fast Free Post |
| Author: | Khlevniuk, Oleg |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Year Published: | 2017 |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Book Binding: | N/A |
| Prizes: | N/A |
| Book Condition: | VERYGOOD |
| SKU: | GOR008213023 |
Item description
The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written, winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Biography & Autobiography "Enthralling,brilliant, and groundbreaking, this bookconfirms Khlevniuk as probably the greatest living expert on Stalin. Essential reading."Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: theCourt of the Red Tsar Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuks estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were victims of famine directly resulting from Stalin's policies. What drove him toward such ruthlessness? This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin the man and dictator. Without mythologizing Stalin as either benevolent or an evil genius, Khlevniuk resolves numerous controversies about specific events in the dictators life while assembling many hundreds of previously unknown letters, memos, reports, and diaries into a comprehensive, compelling narrative of a life that altered the course of world history. In brief, revealing prologues to each chapter, Khlevniuk takes his reader into Stalins favorite dacha, where the innermost circle of Soviet leadership gathered as their vozhd lay dying. Chronological chapters then illuminate major themes: Stalins childhood, his involvement in the Revolution and the early Bolshevik government under Lenin, his assumption of undivided power and mandate for industrialization and collectivization, the Terror, World War II, and the postwar period. At the books conclusion, the author presents a cogent warning against nostalgia for the Stalinist era.
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