Stalin /
"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 top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the...
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Imprint: | New York : Penguin Press, 2014- |
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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
- Volume II. 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.
- 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.
- Volume I. Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928
- Volume II. Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941.