Joseph Stalin (Biography (Lerner Hardcover)) Review
Monday, February 28, 2011
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Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives
Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives Review
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From the author of The Last Tsar, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has entirely gotten hold of: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined. Stalin was a man for whom power was all, terror a useful weapon, and deceit a constant companion.
As Radzinsky narrates the high drama of Stalin's epic quest for domination-first within the Communist Party, then over the Soviet Union and the world-he uncovers the startling truth about this most enigmatic of historical figures. Only now, in the post-Soviet era, can what was suppressed be told: Stalin's long-denied involvement with terrorism as a young revolutionary; the crucial importance of his misunderstood, behind-the-scenes role during the October Revolution; his often hostile relationship with Lenin; the details of his organization of terror, culminating in the infamous show trials of the 1930s; his secret dealings with Hitler, and how they backfired; and the horrifying plans he was making before his death to send the Soviet Union's Jews to concentration camps-tantamount to a potential second Holocaust. Radzinsky also takes an intimate look at Stalin's private life, marked by his turbulent relationship with his wife Nadezhda, and recreates the circumstances that led to her suicide.
As he did in The Last Tsar, Radzinsky thrillingly brings the past to life. The Kremlin intrigues, the ceaseless round of double-dealing and back-stabbing, the private worlds of the Soviet Empire's ruling class-all become, in Radzinsky's hands, as gripping and powerful as the great Russian sagas. And the riddle of that most cold-blooded of leaders, a man for whom nothing was sacred in his pursuit of absolute might--and perhaps the greatest mass murderer in Western history--is solved.
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
The Autobiography Of Joseph Stalin: A Novel
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In a spellbinding novel that combines the suspense of a thriller and the accuracy of a work of history, the psychology of a monster is fully revealed, every atom of his madness explored, every twist of his homicidal logic followed to its logical conclusion. "Leon Trotsky is trying to kill me," thinks Joseph Stalin. It's a paranoid lie, but all too real to Stalin. Trotsky, in exile in Mexico City, is writing a biography of Stalin that may offer proof of a secret crime that could force Stalin from power. What will Trotsky disclose before the long hand of Stalin reaches him and eliminates the threat? The prospect leads Stalin to reflect on his own life—the sly and domineering schoolboy battling a sadistic father . . . a youthful poet, thief, and seminarian who questions morality, evil, and the existence of God until he finds answers that free him to a life of power and slaughter. Stalin takes us deeper and deeper into his life and into the labyrinth of his psyche until we are finally alone with him. The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin is a mesmerizing journey to the very heart of evil.
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Illustrated Biographies-Joseph Stalin
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"Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts."
----Joseph Stalin
Biographical Details
Childhood and Early Life
Stalin in Russian Revolution
Stalin’s Role in the Russian Civil War
Stalin’s Role in the Polish-Soviet War
Rise of Joseph Stalin
Invasion of Georgia
Twilight Years
Trotsky’ Decline
Stalin’s Domination over Politburo
Death of Nadezhda Alliluyeva
The Great Terror
Transformation of Russian Society
Cult of Personality
Great Purge
Population transfer in the Soviet Union
Collectivization in the Soviet Union
Famines
Ukrainian famine
Industrialization
Science and technology in the Soviet Union
Social Services
Culture
Religion in the Soviet Union
Stalinism
Victims
World War II
Soviets Face Germans
Final Victory
Nobel Prize in Peace nominations
Stalin’s Tactics
Allied Conferences
Post War Era
Sino-Soviet Relations
North Korea
Stalin’s Stance on Israel
Falsifiers of History
Domestic Support
Death and Aftermath
Stalin’s Personal life
Marriages and Family
Habits
Stalin’s Beliefs
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