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Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Director of Russian Studies Stephen Kotkin (Princeton University)
Category: History
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world The product of a decade of intrepid research, Stalin is a landmark achievement. Stephen Kotkin offers a biography that, at long last, is equal to this shrewd, sociopathic, charismatic dictator in all his dimens ...Show more
Stalin : Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin
Category: Biography | Series: Stalin
Stalin, Vol. I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin
Category: History
In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He was about to begin uprooting and collectivization of agriculture and industry across the entire Soviet Union. Millions would d ...Show more
Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1928-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
Category: Biography
Stalin's life is one of the most extraordinary of the modern era and Stephen Kotkin's new biography is the first to do full justice, both to the man himself and to the world which he both dominated and ruined. This second volume is the story of the 'mature' dictator - a figure who had no precedent in ab ...Show more
Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
Category: History
A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard'The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of our age ... The War and Peace of history: a book yo ...Show more
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin (Princeton University)
Category: History
Stalin - Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
Category: History
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 ...Show more
Uncivil Society : 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment by Jan T. (CON) Stephen; Gross Kotkin
Category: History | Series: Modern Library Chronicles
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