Stalin, Stephen Kotkin, Volume 1
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Stalin, Stephen Kotkin, Volume 1
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 863-912) and index
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individual biography
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Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Stalin
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bibliography
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893940963
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Stephen Kotkin
Summary
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, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. At the same time, Kotkin posits the impossibility of understanding Stalin's momentous decisions outside of the context of the history of imperial Russia
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Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928
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