See J. Baberowski , Der Feind ist überall ,. 23. Ending the NEP 1. See J. Baberowski , Der Feind ist überall , p . 561 . 2. RGASPI , f . 17 , op . 3 , d . 667 , pp . 10–12 . 3. See J. Hughes , Stalin , Siberia and the Crisis of the ...
Smith, Edward Ellis. The Young Stalin: The Early Years of an Elusive Revolutionary. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968, 470 p., bibliography. Smith argues that Stalin's many close escapes from and his possibly benign treatment ...
Stalin: A Time for Judgement
BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
A comprehensive, annotated survey of English-language literature on Stalin.
Franco did adopt the slogan “Una Patria, Un Estado, Un Caudillo” (evoking “Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer”), but there would be no Spanish fascist regime. When King Vittorio Emanuele had made Mussolini prime minister, back in 1922, ...
This book narrates an almost tragic downfall; we see Stalin transform from a poor provincial seminarian, who wrote romantic nationalist poetry, into a fearsome and brutal ruler.
Showing how Stalin's triumphs and crimes were the product of his fanatical Marxism and his gifted but flawed character, this is an intimate portrait of a man as complicated and human as he was brutal and chilling.
Showing how Stalin's triumphs and crimes were the product of his fanatical Marxism and his gifted but flawed character, this is an intimate portrait of a man as complicated and human as he was brutal and chilling.
Showing how Stalin's triumphs and crimes were the product of his fanatical Marxism and his gifted but flawed character, this is an intimate portrait of a man as complicated and human as he was brutal and chilling.
In his biography of Stalin, 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 ...
It is a galvanizing portrait: razor-sharp, sensitive and unforgiving. "From the Hardcover edition.
Political leaders & leadership.
Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 is the story of how a political system forged an unparalleled personality and vice versa.
The volume provides a deeper understanding of the nature of Stalin's power and of the role of ideas in his politics, presenting a more complex and nuanced image of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century.
Joseph Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953.
He analyses how Stalin understood psychology campaigns well and how he used this understanding in his political reign and terror. Kuromiya provides a convincing, concise and up-to-date analysis of Stalin’s political life.
Sowjetische Außenpolitik im chinesisch - japanischen Konflikt 1937/38 , in : Saeculum , 1977 , H. 4 , S. 419–420 , 425. - Jacobsen , Primat der Sicherheit ... Eva - Maria Stolberg : Stalin und die chinesischen Kommunisten 1945–1953 .
12 The rumor spread that Karoly Pauker , who was initially a simple bodyguard and Stalin's barber , had been catapulted from this lowly position to being the leader of the NKVD's special department.13 The former residents of the " House ...
Himmer, R., 'The Transition from War Communism to the New Economic Policy: An Analysis of Stalin's Views', Russian Review, vol. 53 (1994), pp. ... Hughes, J., Stalin, Siberia and the Crisis of the New Economic Policy (Cambridge, 1991).