| Description |
xix, 707 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [671]-683) and index. |
| Contents |
Toward a new October -- The Tsardom's rise -- Lenin's legacy -- Stalin's program -- Starting the second revolution -- The five-year plan in four! -- The making of a rural upheaval -- The cult and its creator -- Terror and calamity : Stalin's October -- Stalin's time of trouble -- The diplomacy of rapprochement with Germany -- The congress of victims -- The coming of the great purge -- Politics and society in the purge era -- Stalin and fascism -- The forging of autocracy I -- The forging of autocracy II -- The terror process -- Terror, Russian nationalism, and foreign policy -- The revolution of belief -- The scripted culture -- Culminations, 1939-1940 -- The reckoning. |
| Summary |
Explains the motivations, personality, and actions of the man under whose rulership millions of Russians perished. |
| Subject |
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
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Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936.
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Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.
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| Indexed Term |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| ISBN |
039302881X |
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9780393028812 |
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0393308693 paperback |
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9780393308693 paperback |
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