Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941

Description: "To my mind, the most significant single scholarly contribution made to date, anywhere, to the history of Soviet power."―George F. Kennan This book forms the second volume of Tucker's biography of Stalin, the first volume of which was "Stalin as Revolutionary". The author shows that Stalin was a Bolshevik of the radical right whose revolution cast the country deep into its imperial, autocratic past. In 1929 Stalin plunged Soviet Russia into a coercive "revolution from above", a decade-long effort to amass military-industrial power for a new war. He forced 25 million peasant families into state-run ... (more)

Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Release date: 17 April 1992
ISBN-10 : 0393308693 | ISBN-13: 9780393308693

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