Stalin

Name: Stalin
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ISBN: 9780582784796

ISBN-10: 0582784794

ISBN-13: 9780582784796

Edition: 2005

Authors: Hiroaki Kuromiya

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Kuromiya's Stalinis a masterful and concise account, impressively researched, clearly written, poised and persuasive in its analysis.Professor Orlando Figes, Birkbeck College, University of London.Professor Kuromiya is fully steeped in the new sources and fresh historiography of the fearsome dictator. He makes ample use of his earlier pioneering research on Soviet history as well as new documents declassified from the Soviet archives. [This] is the best short biography of Stalin that we have. Professor Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University.nbsp;";Half beast, half giant"; is how Hitler once referred to Stalin. Like Hitler himself, Stalin was a tyrant. His rule of the Soviet Union was one of…

Book details

List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/3/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 0.13" wide x 0.21" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.242

Hiroaki Kuromiya is a professor in the Department of History at Indiana University.



Preface


Chronology



From Georgia to Russia


Soso


Koba


Stalin



Revolution and Civil War


From February to October


Civil War



Struggle for Power


The New Economic Policy


Battle Royal



'Revolution from Above'


The Crisis of the NEP


Industrialisation and Collectivisation



Famine and Terror


Famine


Great Terror



War


Struggle for Survival


Uncertainty


War



Twilight of the God


Victory


Cold War


Death


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index