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Stalin : new biography of a dictator
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ISBN: 9780300163889 0300163886 030016694X 9780300219784 9780300166941 Year: 2015 Publisher: New Haven, CT ; London Yale University Press

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The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written 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, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, 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.

Stalin's letters to Molotov, 1925-1936
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ISBN: 0300062117 Year: 1995 Volume: *1 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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Stalin, Joseph --- Molotov, Vyacheslav M. --- Heads of state --- Chefs d'Etat --- Correspondence --- Correspondance --- Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, --- Stalin, Joseph, --- Soviet Union --- URSS --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- 947 --- -323 <47 + 57> --- Heads of government --- Rulers --- State, Heads of --- Executive power --- Statesmen --- Geschiedenis van de Slavische wereld, van Rusland en de USSR --- Binnenlandse politiek--?<47+57> --- Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich --- -Stalin, Joseph --- -Correspondence --- -Politics and government --- -947 --- 323 <47 + 57> Binnenlandse politiek--?<47+57> --- 947 Geschiedenis van de Slavische wereld, van Rusland en de USSR --- -Heads of state --- 323 <47 + 57> --- Skryabin, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, --- Molotov, V. --- Molotov, Vi︠a︡cheslav Mikhaĭlovich, --- Molotov, Viaceslav Mihailovici, --- Skriabin, Viaceslav Mihailovici, --- Skri︠a︡bin, Vi︠a︡cheslav Mikhaĭlovich, --- Moloṭoṿ, Ṿ. M., --- Morotofu, --- Morotofu, Viachiesurafu, --- Moloṭoṿ, Ṿyaṭsheslaṿ Mikhayloṿiṭsh, --- Молотов, Вячеслав Михайлович, --- מאָלאָטאָװ, װ. מ., --- מאלאטאוו, וו --- מאלאטאוו, וו. מ. --- מאלאטאוו, וו., --- מאלאטאװ, װ. --- מאלאטאװ, װ.מ --- 1917-1936 --- Stalin, Joseph, - 1879-1953 - Correspondence. --- Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, - 1890- - Correspondence. --- Heads of state - Soviet Union - Correspondence. --- Soviet Union - Politics and government - 1917-1936. --- Correspondence. --- 947 History of Russia --- History of Russia

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