Ebook: Stalin. Volume 1, Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928
Author: Stephen Kotkin
- Tags: Stalin Joseph -- 1878-1953. Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography. Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953. Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Presidents & Heads of State. Stalin Joseph -- 1878-1953 Heads of state. Politics and government Soviet Union.
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Penguin Group USA
- City: Array
- Language: English
- epub
In this magnificent new biography of Stalin, Kotkin rejects the inherited wisdom about Stalin's psychological makeup, showing us instead how Stalin's near paranoia was fundamentally political, and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution's structural paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. At the same time, Kotkin demonstrates the Read more...
Abstract: In this magnificent new biography of Stalin, Kotkin rejects the inherited wisdom about Stalin's psychological makeup, showing us instead how Stalin's near paranoia was fundamentally political, and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution's structural paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. At the same time, Kotkin demonstrates the impossibility of understanding Stalin's momentous decisions outside of the context of the tragic history of imperial Russia