STALIN IN POWER
This book forms the second volume of Tucker's biography of Stalin, the first volume of which was "Stalin as Revolutionary". The author shows that Stalin was a Bolshevik of the radical right whose revolution cast the country deep into its imperial, autocratic past.
In 1929 Stalin plunged Soviet Russia into a coercive "revolution from above", a decade-long effort to amass military-industrial power for a new war. He forced 25 million peasant families into state-run collectives and transformed the Communist Party into a servile instrument. In 1939, he concluded the pact with Hitler that enabled him to grasp at Eastern Europe while Hitler made war in the West. Tucker brings a fresh analysis to these events and to the Terror of the 1930s, revealing the motives and methods of what he calls the greatest murder mystery of this century.
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"To my mind, the most significant single scholarly contribution made to date, anywhere, to the history of Soviet power." ― George F. Kennan
| Автор | Robert C. Tucker |
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| Страници | 752 |
| Корица | мека |
| Език | английски |
| Година | 1992 |
| Дата на получаване | 8.05.2024 г. |
| Издателство | WW Norton & Co |
| ID на книга | 29920869 |
| ISBN | 9780393308693 |
| Категории | Биографии Книги на английски език |
