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050 00 DK268.S8|bK65 2014 
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100 1  Kotkin, Stephen. 
245 10 Stalin.|nVolume I,|pParadoxes of power, 1878-1928 /
       |cStephen Kotkin. 
264  1 New York :|bPenguin Press,|c2014- 
300    volumes :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Volume 1.  Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928 : Part I: Double-
       headed eagle -- An imperial son -- Lado's disciple -- 
       Tsarism's most dangerous enemy -- Constitutional autocracy
       -- Part II: Durnovó's revolutionary war -- Stupidity or 
       treason? -- Kalmyk savior -- 1918: Dada and Lenin -- Class
       war and a party state -- Voyages of discovery -- Part III:
       Collision -- Dictator -- "Remove Stalin" -- Faithful pupil
       -- Triumphant debacle -- A trip to Siberia -- Coda: If 
       Stalin had died. 
520 2  "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. Where did such 
       power come from? In Stalin, Stephen Kotkin offers a 
       biography that, at long last, is equal to this shrewd, 
       sociopathic, charismatic dictator in all his dimensions. 
       The character of Stalin emerges as both astute and 
       blinkered, cynical and true believing, people oriented and
       vicious, canny enough to see through people but prone to 
       nonsensical beliefs. We see a man inclined to despotism 
       who could be utterly charming, a pragmatic ideologue, a 
       leader who obsessed over slights yet was a precocious 
       geostrategic thinker--unique among Bolsheviks--and yet who
       made egregious strategic blunders. Through it all, we see 
       Stalin's unflinching persistence, his sheer force of will-
       -perhaps the ultimate key to understanding his indelible 
       mark on history. Stalin gives an intimate view of the 
       Bolshevik regime's inner geography of power, bringing to 
       the fore fresh materials from Soviet military intelligence
       and the secret police. Kotkin rejects the inherited wisdom
       about Stalin's psychological makeup, showing us instead 
       how Stalin's near paranoia was fundamentally political, 
       and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution's structural 
       paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an 
       overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated
       by enemies. At the same time, Kotkin demonstrates the 
       impossibility of understanding Stalin's momentous 
       decisions outside of the context of the tragic history of 
       imperial Russia. The product of a decade of intrepid 
       research, Stalin is a landmark achievement, a work that 
       recasts the way we think about the Soviet Union, 
       revolution, dictatorship, the twentieth century, and 
       indeed the art of history itself"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
600 10 Stalin, Joseph,|d1878-1953. 
600 10 Stalin, Joseph,|d1878-1953|xPsychology. 
600 14 Stalin, Joseph,|d1879-1953. 
600 17 Stalin, Joseph,|d1878-1953|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00053304 
648  7 1917 - 1953|2fast 
650  0 Heads of state|zSoviet Union|vBiography. 
650  0 Dictators|zSoviet Union|vBiography. 
650  0 Political culture|zSoviet Union|xHistory. 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State.
       |2bisacsh 
650  7 HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
       |2bisacsh 
650  7 Dictators.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00892873 
650  7 Heads of state.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00952677 
650  7 Political culture.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01069263 
650  7 Politics and government|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919741 
650  7 Psychology.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01081447 
651  0 Soviet Union|xPolitics and government|y1917-1936. 
651  0 Soviet Union|xPolitics and government|y1936-1953. 
651  0 Soviet Union|xHistory|y1925-1953. 
651  7 Soviet Union.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01210281 
655  7 Biography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423686 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
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