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Stalin

Kotkin, Stephen (author.).

Summary: V. 1. "A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world. It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band seizes control of the country in the aftermath of total world war, the former seminarian ruthlessly dominates the new regime until he stands as absolute ruler of a vast and terrible state apparatus, with dominion over Eurasia. While still building his power base within the Bolshevik dictatorship, he embarks upon the greatest gamble of his political life and the largest program of social reengineering ever attempted: the collectivization of all agriculture and industry across one sixth of the earth. Millions will die, and many more millions will suffer, but the man will push through to the end against all resistance and doubts."--

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  • ISBN: 9781594203794 (v.1 : hardback)
  • ISBN: 1594203792 (v.1 : hardback)
  • ISBN: 9781594203800 (v.2 : hardback)
  • ISBN: 1594203806 (v.2 : hardback)
  • Physical Description: volumes <1-> : maps, illustrations ; 23 cm.
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  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2014-

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Volume I. Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928 -- Volume II. Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 --

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  • Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2014 May #1

    John P. Birkelund Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton, Kotkin has been researching his magisterial biography of Stalin for a decade. Here we have only the first volume, both starting and ending in the crucial year of 1928 with Stalin heading to Siberia as he plans to launch the collectivization of agriculture and industry that would utterly transform—and traumatize—Soviet society.

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  • Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2017 January #1

    Historian Kotkin authoritatively examines Stalin's life, from his childhood in current-day Georgia to his metamorphosis as student priest to his unlikely rise as Lenin's ultimate successor. The first in a planned epic trilogy. (LJ 5/1/14)

    Copyright 2017 Library Journal.
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