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Author Suny, Ronald Grigor, author.

Title Stalin : passage to revolution / Ronald Grigor Suny.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020].

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B STALIN JOSEPH    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Biographies  BIOG STALIN, JOSEPH    DUE 04-08-24
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B STALIN JOSEPH S    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 857 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 707-829) and index.
Summary "This biography of the young Stalin is more than the story of how a revolutionary was made: it is the first serious investigation, using the full range of Russian and Georgian archives, to explain Stalin's evolution from a romantic and idealistic youth into a hardened political operative. Suny takes seriously the first half of Stalin's life: his intellectual development, his views on issue of nationalities and nationalism, and his role in the Social Democratic debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book narrates an almost tragic downfall; we see Stalin transform from a poor provincial seminarian, who wrote romantic nationalist poetry, into a fearsome and brutal ruler. Many biographers of Stalin turn to shallow psychological analysis in seeking to explain his embrace of revolution, focusing on the beatings he suffered at the hands of his father or his hero-worship of Lenins, or sensationalizing Stalin's involvement in violent activity. Suny seeks to show Stalin in the complex context of the oppressive tsarist police-state in which he lived and debates and party politics that animated the revolutionary circles in which he moved. Though working from fragmentary evidence from disparate sources, Suny is able to place Stalin in his intellectual and political context and reveal, not only a different analysis of the man's psychological and intellectual transformation, but a revisionist history of the revolutionary movements themselves before 1917"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Biography.
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953. (OCoLC)fst00053304
Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921) (OCoLC)fst01907572
Chronological Term 1917-1921
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
Other Form: Online version: Suny, Ronald Grigor, 1940- Stalin 1st. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020. 9780691185934 (DLC) 2019034218
ISBN 9780691182032 (hardback)
0691182035 (hardback)
9780691202716 (paperback)
0691202710 (paperback)
9780691185934 (ebook)
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