Stalin
eBook - ePub

Stalin

A Beginner's Guide

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Stalin

A Beginner's Guide

About this book

Joseph Stalin began life as a frail child, with an abusive father and an inferiority complex. This triggered an early desire for greatness and respect that would eventually turn the young Bolshevik idealist into one of the most ruthless dictators in modern history.Like his contemporary, Adolf Hitler, Stalin was responsible for millions of deaths and inflicted barbaric cruelty on the Soviet people. But while Hitler is readily portrayed as a monster, Stalin has not been subjected to quite the same level of vitriol. In Stalin: A Beginner's Guide, renowned historian Abraham Ascher analyses new and old sources, separating truths from falsehoods to present an unvarnished portrait of the Soviet leader.

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Information

Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781780749143
Topic
History
Subtopic
Russian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 Stalin’s Early Years, 1879–1899
  7. 2 A Young Revolutionary, 1899–1917
  8. 3 Stalin under Lenin’s Leadership, 1917–1924
  9. 4 The Struggle for Power, 1924–1928
  10. 5 There Are No Fortresses Bolsheviks Cannot Storm’
  11. 6 The Great Terror, 1936–1938
  12. 7 Was the Stalinist State Totalitarian?
  13. 8 World War II, 1939–1945
  14. 9 Leader of a Great Power, 1945–1953
  15. Epilogue: Stalin’s Legacy
  16. Bibliography
  17. Acknowledgements
  18. Copyright

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