The Real Stalin

Yves Delbars, Bernard Miall

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781138703834
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351786669
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

In this book, originally published in English in 1953, the author, recognized as one of the best-informed experts on Eastern European politics, reconstructed during the course of a decade's work, the real history of Stalin, from his youth in Georgia to the last year of his life. Utilizing an enormous mass of largely unpublsihed documents he reconstructed a living Stalin with all his qualities and faults, crimes and achievements. He tells the secrets of Stalin's rise to power and of the extraordinary complexity and effectiveness of his tactics which can be seen in his attitude towards the problems of Marxist philosophy, in his attitude towards the German Question and his role as military commander.

INDEX

A

Abreks, 15, 16, 51; Stalin as an, 31, 32

Africa, North, landing in, 329, 330, 334, 335

Agabekov, 56

Agriculture, 116, 118, 147-8, 150, 155, 161-3, 189, 360-1, 413; see also Collectivization.

Alexander Nevsky, film, 217

Alexander the Great, 12

Alexander, Tsar, 15; Stalin compared to, 256-7

Alexandrov, Gregor, 330, 336-7, 345n., 381n.

Alexeiev, General, 96

Aliocha, see Djaparidzé.

Allilouev, 33, 44, 61, 62, 69, 90-1

Alliloueva, Nadiejda, 33, 90-1, 105, 107, 112, 170, 222

Amilakhvari, Prince, 14, 20-1

Ammen-Em-Phta, 11

Anarchists, 87

Anders, General, 314

Andréev, 150, 172, 193, 219, 360, 381, 392

Angarsky, 28, 81

Anschluss, 343

Anti-Comintern pact, 239, 244

Anton, Patriarch, 15

Antonov, General, 365, 369, 371

Antonov-Ovseensko, 101

Arabalian, 34

Arakhvelidzé, 38

Arcos, British raid on, 150

Arctic Ocean convoys, 306

Aremachvili, Sosso, 34

Armenian Catholics, 18

Army, and Bolsheviks, 86-8; see also Red Army.

Artem, 93

Artenzov, 202

Artusov, 157

Assine, 87

Astakhov, 215, 225, 229-30, 231, 235, 237-9, 241

Astrakhan, 14

Astronomy, and Stalin, 31

Atlantic Charter, 306

Atom bomb, race to make, 352-3; explosions of, 396; at Los Alamos, 395

Attila, 278

Attlee, 393

Aurore, cruiser, 101

Avilov, 82

Axelrod, 31

Azerbeidjans, 51

B

Badoviev, 64

Bagratioun, General, 100

Bagratov, General, 228n.

Bajanov, Boris, 122, 123, 138

Bakaiev, 180, 182

Bakhtadzé, family, 16

Baku, 46, 48-9, 50, 51, 56-9

Balagan, 41, 42, 44

Balitsky, 176, 177

Balkans, 255, 258, 336, 393; Russo-German struggle for, 261-4; Stalin’s fear of British post-war influence in, 3...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Contents
• I Prologue
• II The Youth of Joseph Stalin
• III The Seminary at Tiflis
• IV Professional Revolutionary
• V Imprisonment and Deportation
• VI Escape
• VII The Birth of ‘Stalin’
• VIII Further Imprisonment and Life Abroad
• IX St. Petersburg, 1913-17
• X The First Revolution and the Struggle for Power
• XI Lenin as Stalin’s Teacher
• XII Trotzky in the Foreground: Difficult Days
• XIII The Congress of Unification
• XIV The Bolshevik Coup
• XV Revolution and Civil War
• XVI Second Marriage: War with Poland
• XVII Stalin becomes Party Secretary
• XVIII Lenin’s Testament, and the Conquest of Power
• XIX The End of the Triumvirate
• XX The Secret of Stalin’s Ascent to Power
• XXI The New Dogma
• XXII Stalin and the Politburo
• XXIII The Struggle against the Right
• XXIV Collectivization: the First Five-Year Plan
• XXV The Great Purge Approaches
• XXVI Extermination of the Opposition: the First Phase
• XXVII Extermination of the Opposition: the Second Phase
• XXVIII The Apotheosis of Stalin
• XXIX Stalin and Foreign Politics
• XXX Diplomatic General Post
• XXXI Towards Munich
• XXXII Munich
• XXXIII The Russo-German Treaties
• XXXIV The War and Communism
• XXXV Unconverted Diplomacy
• XXXVI The Russo-German Struggle for the Balkans
• XXXVII Molotov in Berlin
• XXXVIII Towards a Russo-German War
• XXXIX Industrial Preparation: The Pact with Japan
• XL Stalin is Taken by Surprise
• XLI Stalin Organizes his Work in Time of War
• XLII The Battles of Moscow: Contacts with the Allies
• XLIII The New Command
• XLIV Stalingrad
• XLV Tentatives in Direction of a Separate Peace
• XLVI Stalin and Roosevelt: Teheran
• XLVII Between Teheran and Yalta
• XLVIII Yalta
• XLIX Between Yalta and Potsdam
• L Potsdam
• LI The Atomic Age and the Cold War
• LII The U.S.S.R. and Stalin as Time has Changed Them
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX