246 Pages
    by Routledge

    246 Pages
    by Routledge

    This profile looks at how Stalin, despite being regarded as intellectually inferior by his rivals, managed to rise to power and rule the largest country in the world, achievieving divine-like status as a dictator.

    Through recently uncovered research material and Stalin’s archives in Moscow, Kuromiya analyzes how and why Stalin was a rare, even unique, politician who literally lived by politics alone. He analyses how Stalin understood psychology campaigns well and how he used this understanding in his political reign and terror. Kuromiya provides a convincing, concise and up-to-date analysis of Stalin’s political life.

    1. From Georgia to Russia 2. Revolutions and Civil War 3. Struggle for Power 4. `Revolution from Above' 5. Famine and Terror 6. War 7. Gotterdammerung

    Biography

    Kuromiya, Hiroaki

    "Hioaki Kuromiya's slim biography is a welcom addition to the literature on the general secretary, as it combines a persuasive, flexible thesis with a terse, thorough and up-to-date accounting of Stalin's career".

    David Brandenberger, University of Richmond

    This new biography of Stalin is brief, displays an excellent knowledge of a wide variety of sources, is up-to-date, gives alternative data interpretations when no single fact or interpretation is certain and is balanced and judicious in its judgments. This book provides such a knowledge and deserves to be widely read.

    Michael Ellman, Amsterdam University