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Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

Categorie	Geschiedenis Rusland
Boeknummer	#406044-XR18
Titel	Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Auteur	Kotkin, Stephen
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Penguin
Jaar van uitgave	2015
ISBN10	0141027940
ISBN13	9780141027944
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrated with photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world. The product of a decade of intrepid research, Stalin is a landmark achievement. Stephen Kotkin offers a biography that, at long last, is equal to this shrewd, sociopathic, charismatic dictator in all his dimensions. 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. Drawing on Kotkin's exhaustive study of Soviet archival materials as well as vast scholarly literat... (Lees verder)ure, Stalin recasts the way we think about the Soviet Union, revolution, dictatorship, the twentieth century, and indeed the art of history itself.
Pagina's	949
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 17,50

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