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Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

By : Stephen Kotkin

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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 province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a revolutionary and finds a leadership role within a small group of marginal zealots. When the old world is unexpectedly brought down in a total war, the band seizes control of the country, and the new regime it founds as the vanguard of a new world order is ruthlessly dominated from within by the former seminarian until he stands as the absolute ruler of a vast and terrible state apparatus, with dominion over Eurasia. But the largest country in the world is also a poor and backward one, far behind the great capitalist countries in industrial and military power, encircled on all sides. Shortly after seizing total power, Stalin conceives of the largest program of social reengineering ever attempted: the root-and-branch uprooting and collectivization of

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Author : Stephen Kotkin

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Publisher : Recorded Books

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ISBN-10 : B00QL17Z50

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