Stalin in Power : The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941 Paperback / softback
by Robert C. Tucker
Paperback / softback
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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 collectives and transformed the Communist Party into a servile instrument.
In 1939, he concluded the pact with Hitler that enabled him to grasp at Eastern Europe while Hitler made war in the West.
Tucker brings a fresh analysis to these events and to the Terror of the 1930s, revealing the motives and methods of what he calls the greatest murder mystery of this century.
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:752 pages
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:23/09/1992
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- ISBN:9780393308693
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:752 pages
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:23/09/1992
- Category:
- ISBN:9780393308693