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  title info:
    title: Stalin
  name:
    name part: Kotkin, Stephen
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    date issued: 9999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: volumes <1-2> : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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 rovince 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 fundamentall…
  table of contents: Volume I. Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928 -- Volume II. Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941.
  table of contents: 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.
  table of contents: Volume 2. Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 -- Part I: Equal to the myth -- Triumph of the will -- Apocalypse -- Victory -- Terrorism -- A great power -- Part II: Terror as statecraft -- On a bluff -- Enemies hunting enemies -- "What went on in no. 1's brain?" -- Missing piece -- Part III: Three-card monte -- Hammer -- Pact -- Smashed pig -- Greed -- Fear -- Coda. Little Corner, Saturday, June 21, 1941.
  note: Stephen Kotkin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Stalin, Joseph
      name part: 1878-1953
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Stalin, Joseph
      name part: 1878-1953
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Heads of state
    geographic: Soviet Union
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Dictators
    geographic: Soviet Union
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1917-1936
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1936-1953
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: History
    temporal: 1925-1953
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    topic: Presidents & Heads of State
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Russia & the Former Soviet Union
  classification: DK268.S8 K65 2014
  classification: 947.084/2092 B
  identifier: 9781594203794
  identifier: 1594203792
  identifier: 9781594203800
  identifier: 1594203806
  identifier: 9780143127864
  identifier: 0143127861
  identifier: 2014032906
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 141023
    record change date: 20181127101045.0
    record identifier: in00003539528