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100 1  Suny, Ronald Grigor,|eauthor. 
245 10 Stalin :|bpassage to revolution /|cRonald Grigor Suny. 
263    2010 
264  1 Princeton :|bPrinceton University Press,|c[2020]. 
300    xviii, 857 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations, maps ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 707-829) and 
       index. 
520    "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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Stalin, Joseph,|d1878-1953. 
600 17 Stalin, Joseph,|d1878-1953.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00053304 
647  7 Revolution|c(Soviet Union :|d1917-1921)|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01907572 
648  7 1917-1921|2fast 
651  0 Soviet Union|xHistory|yRevolution, 1917-1921|vBiography. 
651  7 Soviet Union.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01210281 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aSuny, Ronald Grigor, 1940-|tStalin
       |b1st.|dPrinceton : Princeton University Press, 2020.
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