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The Stalinist Dictatorship

Author : Christoper Edward Ward
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317762258
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Stalinist Dictatorship written by Christoper Edward Ward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late 1920s onwards, forced collectivisation, state-directed industrialisation, mass purging and the party's control of culture, refashioned Russia and gave birth to a new type of society. The 'second revolution' and its aftermath remodelled the Soviet State and the Bolshevik party, restructured all institutions and reconstituted all social relationships. Millions found their lives changed forever. Nothing was untouched and no one was unaffected. Presiding over these momentous changes was Joseph Stalin, one of the twentieth century's most disturbing figures. "The Stalinst Dictatorship" looks at the regime from three different perspectives. Section one focuses on interpretations of Stalin's character and attempts to explain the everlasting puzzle of the relationship between events and personality. Section two looks at Stalin's role within the Soviet Union, and sees him as only one part (albeit an important one) of a complex culture of politics and administration. The final section examines the ways in which the Soviet people handled socialism, and how Stalinism functioned on the ground. The vicissitudes in Stalin's reputation reflect the vicissitudes of the history of the twentieth century itself. Stalin became a symbol of a new system, a 'socialist' alternative to the capatilist path.

Joseph Stalin

Author : Brenda Haugen
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780756518028
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Joseph Stalin written by Brenda Haugen and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the life of Joseph Stalin, who was the dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953.

Images of Dictatorship (Routledge Library Editions: Joseph Stalin)

Author : Rosalind Marsh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351762028
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Images of Dictatorship (Routledge Library Editions: Joseph Stalin) written by Rosalind Marsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1989, this book presented the first study of the image of Stalin in literature. Analysing the literary presentaiton of historical character and the treatment of 20th Century tyrants in European prose fiction, the book draws a comparison between the depiction of Hitler in German literature and Stalin in Russian literature. It explores the way in which Stalin has been portrayed by Soviet, emigré Russian, and European writers including Orwell, Nabokov, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. It examines in detail two important novels which had hitherto received little critical attention: the revised (1978) version of Sozhenitsyn's The First Circle and Anatoly Rybakov's Children of the Arbat. This book will be of interest to students of Soviet/Russian literature, history and politics and those intsted in the relationship between history and fiction in the 20th Century.

The Nature of Stalin's Dictatorship

Author : E. A. Rees
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230524281
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Stalin's Dictatorship written by E. A. Rees and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-11-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first attempt to systematically study the nature of the political leadership system under Stalin. It focuses both on the formal institutions of power, such as the Politburo, and on the informal networks of decision-making that were a central feature of his system of rule. It draws on a wealth of new archival material to highlight Stalin's relations with his co-leaders and wider elite groups, and offers different perspectives on the nature and degree of Stalin's system of personal power.

Stalinism and Nazism

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316583783
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Stalinism and Nazism written by Ian Kershaw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally distinguished contributors to this landmark volume represent a variety of approaches to the Nazi and Stalinist regimes. These far-reaching essays provide the raw materials towards a comparative analysis and offer the means to deepen and extend research in the field. The first section highlights similarities and differences in the leadership cults at the heart of the dictatorships. The second section moves to the 'war machines' engaged in the titanic clash of the regimes between 1941 and 1945. A final section surveys the shifting interpretations of successor societies as they have faced up to the legacy of the past. Combined, the essays presented here offer unique perspectives on the most violent and inhumane epoch in modern European history.

The Dictator, the Revolution, the Machine

Author : Tony McKenna
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782843612
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book The Dictator, the Revolution, the Machine written by Tony McKenna and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a commonplace wisdom that from the authoritarian roots of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 grew the gulags and the police state of the Stalinist epoch. The Dictator, the Revolution, The Machine overturns that perspective once and for all by showing how October was inspired by a profound mass movement comprised of urban workers and rural poor -- a movement that went on to forge a state capable of channelling its political will in and through the most overwhelming form of grass-roots democracy history has ever known. It was a single, precarious experiment whose life was tragically brief. In a context of civil war and foreign invasion the fledgling democracy was eradicated and the Bolshevik party was denuded of its social basis -- the working classes. While the party survived, its centrist elements came to the fore as the power of the bureaucracy asserted itself. From the ashes of human freedom there arose a zombified, sclerotic administration in which state functionaries took precedence over elected representatives. One man came to embody the inverted logic of this bureaucratic machine, its remorseless brutality and its parasitic drive for power. Joseph Stalin was its highest expression, accruing to himself state powers as he made his murderous, heady rise to dictator. This book examines his historical profile, its roots in Georgian medievalism, and shows why Stalin was destined to play the role he did. In broader strokes Tony McKenna raises the conflict between the revolutionary movement and the bureaucracy to the level of a literary tragedy played out on the stage of world history, showing how Stalinism's victory would pave the way for the Midnight of the Century.

Stalin's Library

Author : Geoffrey Roberts
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300179049
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Stalin's Library written by Geoffrey Roberts and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography as well as an intellectual portrait, this book explores all aspects of Stalin's tumultuous life and politics, told through his personal library. Stalin, an avid reader from an early age, amassed a surprisingly diverse personal collection of thousands of books, many of which he marked and annotated revealing his intimate thoughts, feelings, and beliefs

The Dictators

Author : R. J. Overy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393020304
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Dictators written by R. J. Overy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overy gives readers an absorbing study of Hitler and Stalin, ranging from their private and public selves, their ascents to power and consolidation of absolute rule, to their waging of massive war and creation of far-flung empires of camps and prisons.

The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships

Author : B. Apor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230518214
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships written by B. Apor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-10-09 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to analyze the distinct leader cults that flourished in the era of 'High Stalinism' as an integral part of the system of dictatorial rule in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Fifteen studies explore the way in which these cults were established, their function and operation, their dissemination and reception, the place of the cults in art and literature, the exportation of the Stalin cult and its implantment in the communist states of Eastern Europe, and the impact which de-Stalinisation had on these cults.

Stalin

Author : Oleg V. Khlevniuk
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030016694X
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Stalin written by Oleg V. Khlevniuk and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing biography of the notorious Russian dictator by an author whose knowledge of Soviet-era archives far surpasses all others. Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk’s estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were victims of famine directly resulting from Stalin’s policies. What drove him toward such ruthlessness? This essential biography offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin the man and dictator. Without mythologizing Stalin as either benevolent or an evil genius, Khlevniuk resolves numerous controversies about specific events in the dictator’s life while assembling many hundreds of previously unknown letters, memos, reports, and diaries into a comprehensive, compelling narrative of a life that altered the course of world history. In brief, revealing prologues to each chapter, Khlevniuk takes his reader into Stalin’s favorite dacha, where the innermost circle of Soviet leadership gathered as their vozhd lay dying. Chronological chapters then illuminate major themes: Stalin’s childhood, his involvement in the Revolution and the early Bolshevik government under Lenin, his assumption of undivided power and mandate for industrialization and collectivization, the Terror, World War II, and the postwar period. At the book’s conclusion, the author presents a cogent warning against nostalgia for the Stalinist era. “This brilliant, authoritative, opinionated biography ranks as the best on Stalin in any language.”—Martin McCauley East-West Review “A historiographical and literary masterpiece.”—Mark Edele, Australian Book Review “A very digestible biography, yet one packed with revelations.”—Paul E. Richardson, Russian Life Magazine

The Dictators

Author : Richard Overy
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141912243
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Dictators written by Richard Overy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-04-28 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal regimes in history, murdering millions. They fought the largest and costliest war in all history. Yet millions of Germans and Russians enthusiastically supported them and the values they stood for. In this first major study of the two dictatorships side-by-side Richard Overy sets out to answer the question: How was dictatorship possible? How did they function? What was the bond that tied dictator and people so powerfully together? He paints a remarkable and vivid account of the different ways in which Stalin and Hitler rose to power, and abused and dominated their people. It is a chilling analysis of powerful ideals corrupted by the vanity of ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Stalin

Author : Stephen Kotkin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 073522448X
Total Pages : 1249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Stalin written by Stephen Kotkin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 1249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Monumental.” —The New York Times Book Review Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world’s largest peasant economy into “socialist modernity,” otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost. What it cost, and what Stalin ruthlessly enacted, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways. Building and running a dictatorship, with life and death power over hundreds of millions, made Stalin into the uncanny figure he became. Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 is the story of how a political system forged an unparalleled personality and vice versa. The wholesale collectivization of some 120 million peasants necessitated levels of coercion that were extreme even for Russia, and the resulting mass starvation elicited criticism inside the party even from those Communists committed to the eradication of capitalism. But Stalin did not flinch. By 1934, when the Soviet Union had stabilized and socialism had been implanted in the countryside, praise for his stunning anti-capitalist success came from all quarters. Stalin, however, never forgave and never forgot, with shocking consequences as he strove to consolidate the state with a brand new elite of young strivers like himself. Stalin’s obsessions drove him to execute nearly a million people, including the military leadership, diplomatic and intelligence officials, and innumerable leading lights in culture. While Stalin revived a great power, building a formidable industrialized military, the Soviet Union was effectively alone and surrounded by perceived enemies. The quest for security would bring Soviet Communism to a shocking and improbable pact with Nazi Germany. But that bargain would not unfold as envisioned. The lives of Stalin and Hitler, and the fates of their respective dictatorships, drew ever closer to collision, as the world hung in the balance. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 is a history of the world during the build-up to its most fateful hour, from the vantage point of Stalin’s seat of power. It is a landmark achievement in the annals of historical scholarship, and in the art of biography.

The Stalin Era

Author : Philip Boobbyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134739370
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book The Stalin Era written by Philip Boobbyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a wide-ranging history of every aspect of Stalin's dictatorship over the peoples of the Soviet Union. Drawing upon a huge array of primary and secondary sources, The Stalin Era is a first-hand account of Stalinist thought, policy and and their effects. It places the man and his ideology into context both within pre-Revolutionary Russia, Lenin's Soviet Union and post-Stalinist Russia. The Stalin Era examines: * collectivisation * industrialisation * terror * government * the Cult of Stalin * education and Science * family * religion: The Russian Orthodox Church * art and the state.

The Stalinist Era

Author : David L. Hoffmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107007089
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Stalinist Era written by David L. Hoffmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing Stalinism in its international context, The Stalinist Era explains the origins and consequences of Soviet state intervention and violence.

Joseph Stalin: Dictator of the Soviet Union

Author : Linda Cernak
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1629699985
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Joseph Stalin: Dictator of the Soviet Union written by Linda Cernak and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography examines the life of Joseph Stalin using easy-to-read, compelling text. Through striking historical and contemporary images and photographs and informative sidebars, readers will learn about Stalin's family background, childhood, education, and his time as dictator of the Soviet Union. Informative sidebars enhance and support the text. Features include a table of contents, timeline, facts page, glossary, bibliography, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Substate Dictatorship

Author : Yoram Gorlizki
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300255608
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Substate Dictatorship written by Yoram Gorlizki and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential exploration of how authoritarian regimes operate at the local level How do local leaders govern in a large dictatorship? What resources do they draw on? Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk examine these questions by looking at one of the most important authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. Starting in the early years after the Second World War and taking the story through to the 1970s, they chart the strategies of Soviet regional leaders, paying particular attention to the forging and evolution of local trust networks.

Stalin and Stalinism

Author : Alan Wood
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415037212
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Stalin and Stalinism written by Alan Wood and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apart from the 1917 Russian Revolution itself, Joseph Stalin's twenty-five year dictatorship over the USSR is without doubt the most controversial phenomenon in the history of the Soviet Union. This pamphlet examines Stalin's ambiguous personal and political legacy, his achievements and his crimes - all now the subject of major reappraisal both in the West and in the former Soviet Union.