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Title: Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941 by Robert C. Tucker ISBN: 0-393-30869-3 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Please write volume 3!
Comment: This is an excellent biography of Stalin, the middle book in a proposed trilogy. Tucker weaves events in the Soviet Union around the twisted, paranoid personality of Joseph Stalin, former seminary student. What I found to be the most intriguing was how every time Stalin changed his mind about something, everyone had to fall in line or risk being labeled a "wrecker" or "counter-revolutionary." Stalin was not particularly brilliant, and he was not Lenin's choice as a successor, but he had a genius for bureacratic maneuvering that put him in the powerful position that he held for years. For all his paranoia and all the damage he did to Russia, it is amazing that someone didn't actually knock him off. It is a chilling reflection on how obsequious even the best of us can be when motivated by fear.
Rating: 5
Summary: The finest treatment of its subject
Comment: Neither Stalin, the collectivization crisis, nor the terror suffer from a dearth of good and serious studies. Yet despite the crowded field, Tucker's "Stalin in Power" is by far the best treatment of all three complex events. No other book sets out as credible, well-researched and well considered a theory of the workings of Stalin's mind. The great challenge presented by the Soviet thirties is the comprehension of the real logic behind what appears from the outside as mass irrationality. Most writers' personal models of depth and social psychology are inadequate to the task. Tucker succeeds, by a significant margin.
Rating: 5
Summary: Comprehensive, accessible, and supremely coherent
Comment: Tucker's careful storytelling hews to historical facts and grippingly narrates Stalin's creeping domination of the Soviet idea. This book is complete. A must read for all interested in recent Russian history.
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Title: Stalin As Revolutionary, 1879-1929: A Study in History and Personality by Robert C. Tucker ISBN: 039305487X Publisher: W W Norton & Co Pub. Date: 01 October, 1973 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Stalin: The First In-Depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives by Edvard Radzinskii, Edvard Radzinsky ISBN: 0385479549 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock ISBN: 0679729941 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Stalin: Breaker of Nations by Robert Conquest ISBN: 0140169539 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940 by Marc Jansen, Nikita Petrov, N. V. Petrov ISBN: 0817929029 Publisher: Hoover Institution Press Pub. Date: 05 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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