TY - BOOK ID - 3166064 TI - Stalin : revolutionary in an era of war AU - MacDermott, Kevin AU - Palgrave Macmillan PY - 2006 VL - *19 SN - 9780333711217 0333711211 PB - Houndmills ; New York Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Heads of state KW - Stalin, Joseph, KW - Soviet Union KW - Politics and government KW - Politics and government, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3166064 AB - Stalin's massive impact on Soviet history is often explained in terms of his inherent evil, personality defects, and power lust. This volume argues that Stalin's thoughts and actions are best contextualized in the inter-relationship between war and revolution in the first half of the twentieth century. Kevin McDermott incorporates recently declassified materials from the former Soviet Party archives and provides a critical review of western and Russian historiography. ER -