| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
542 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-526) and index. |
| Contents |
Georgia -- The young Marxist -- In the underground -- Bolsheviks and Mensheviks -- 1905 -- Exile -- Promotion -- Siberia -- Revolution -- October -- Communism -- Civil War -- The Bolshevik character -- Promotion and a marriage -- Cannibalism and reform -- The Stalin machine -- Immeasurable power -- God votes again -- The triumvirate -- We vow to thee, Comrade Lenin -- The Triumvirate destroyed -- The beginnings of Stalinism -- Trotsky leaves the stage -- A visit to Siberia -- Collectivization -- The plan -- A state of terror -- New Society -- Terror begins at home -- The cult -- Reconciliation -- Kirov affair -- Terror by day, and by night -- Four years late -- Up to our elbows in blood -- The final phases of the terror -- Foreign policy -- Barbarossa -- Total enough for anyone -- Typhoon -- Stalin and the allies -- A slowly turning tide -- Teheran -- The alliance -- Warsaw -- Not a few blunders -- Peacemaking -- Stalin and the muses -- Endgame -- Checkmate. |
| Subject |
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
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Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Soviet Union -- Politics and government.
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| ISBN |
0688047300 |
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