Author Last Name,
Author First Name,
Pages,
Binding,
Edition,
ISBN 10,
ISBN 13,
Condition,
Publisher,
Date Published,
Specifications
Author Last Name:
Kotkin
Author First Name:
Stephen
Pages:
976
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
Illustrated
ISBN 10:
0143127861
ISBN 13:
9780143127864
Condition:
New
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Date Published:
1/1/2015
Genre:
Biographies and Autobiographies
Description
In his biography of Stalin, Kotkin rejects the inherited wisdom about Stalin's psychological makeup, showing us instead how Stalin's near paranoia was fundamentally political and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution's structural paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. At the same time, Kotkin posits the impossibility of understanding Stalin's momentous decisions outside of the context of the history of imperial Russia.
