Stalin A Biography

Name: Stalin A Biography
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ISBN: 9780674022584

ISBN-10: 0674022580

ISBN-13: 9780674022584

Edition: 2004

Authors: Robert Service

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Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story behind this notorious twentieth-century figure. Drawing on unexplored archives and personal testimonies gathered from across Russia and Georgia, this is the first full-scale biography of the Soviet dictator in twenty years. Service describes in unprecedented detail the first half of Stalin's life--his childhood in Georgia as the son of a violent, drunkard father and a devoted mother; his education and religious training; and his political activity as a young revolutionary. No mere messenger…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 736
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English

Robert Service was born on October 29, 1947. He received an MA in modern languages from the University of Cambridge and an MA and a PhD in government from the University of Essex. He is a Russian historian and political commentator. He has written numerous books including Comrades: A World History of Communism; Stalin: A Biography, Lenin: A Biography, and Spies and Commissars. He received the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize for Trotsky: A Biography.



Preface


A Note on Renderings


Maps



The Revolutionary



Stalin as We Have Known Him



The Family Dzhughashvili



The Schooling of A Priest



Poet and Rebel



Marxist Militant



The Party and The Caucasus



On The Run



At The Centre of The Party



Koba and Bolshevism



Osip of Siberia



Return to Petrograd



Leader for The Party



The Year 1917



October



People's Commissar



To The Front!



The Polish Corridor



With Lenin



Nation and Revolution



Testament



The Opportunities of Struggle



Joseph and Nadya



Factionalist Against Factions



Despot



Ending the Nep



Terror-Economics



Ascent to Supremacy



The Death of Nadya



Modernity's Sorcerer



Fears in Victory



Ruling the Nations



Mind of Terror



The Great Terrorist



The Cult of Impersonality



Brutal Reprieve



Warlord



The World in Sight



Approaches to War



The Devils Sup



Barbarossa



Fighting On



Sleeping on the Divan



To The Death!



Supreme Commander



The Big Three



Last Campaigns



Victory!



The Imperator



Delivering the Blow



The Outbreak of The Cold War



Subjugating Eastern Europe



Stalinist Rulership



Policies and Purges



Emperor Worship



Dangerous Liaisons



Vozhd and Intellectual



Ailing Despot



Death and Embalming



After Stalin


Glossary


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index