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by Stephen Kotkin
The book’s signature achievemen. s its vast scope: Kotkin has set out to write not only the definitive life of Stalin but also the definitive history of the collapse of the Russian empire and the creation of the new Soviet empire in its place. The American Scholar: Magnificent and magisterial, Kotkin’s study sheds unexpected light on all sorts of thorny problem. .he narrative is not only profound but thrilling.
Stalin: Vol. 1 - Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 Stephen Kotkin is the John P. Birkelund Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton University. 1 - Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928. A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world. Stephen Kotkin offers a biography that, at long last, is equal to this shrewd, sociopathic, charismatic dictator in all his dimensions. Stephen Kotkin is the John P. He is also a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He directs Princeton's Institute for International and Regional Studies and co-directs its Program in the History and Practice of Diplomacy.
Stephen Kotkin, whose first book, Magnetic Mountain (1995), had the bold subtitle Stalinism as a.Kotkin’s Stalin is a striver and an autodidact of talent and determination
Stephen Kotkin, whose first book, Magnetic Mountain (1995), had the bold subtitle Stalinism as a Civilisation, is not one to shrink before challenges. His expansive study is just the first of a projected three volumes. Kotkin’s Stalin is a striver and an autodidact of talent and determination. There were setbacks and difficulties as he was growing up, but Kotkin dismisses the idea of childhood trauma: lots of people, including many fellow revolutionaries, had it worse. As happened with many bright young men in late imperial Russia, Stalin’s aspirations for betterment got deflected into the revolutionary movement.
The office perspective, inevitably, is less granular in examination of the wider society-the little tactics of the habitat-but the regime, too, constituted a kind of society.
In analyzing Stalin’s international relations, Kotkin makes clear how the combination of Stalin’s ascent to power and growing paranoia guided his global policies
In analyzing Stalin’s international relations, Kotkin makes clear how the combination of Stalin’s ascent to power and growing paranoia guided his global policies. This skepticism and paranoia were baked into the very structure of Stalin’s dictatorship and created a closed loop of reactive, delusional decisions leading to cold-shoulders and hard-fisted dealings from other countries, which only.
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Stephen Kotkin’s first volume of a projected three-volume biography of Stalin, published by Penguin Press, is a travesty of.Many authors have tried to unravel the Stalin enigma, and Kotkin’s book joins an already crowded field
Stephen Kotkin’s first volume of a projected three-volume biography of Stalin, published by Penguin Press, is a travesty of historical writing. Many authors have tried to unravel the Stalin enigma, and Kotkin’s book joins an already crowded field. Indeed, there has been an astounding proliferation of biographies about Stalin in recent years.
In Stalin, Stephen Kotkin offers a biography that, at long last, is equal to this shrewd, sociopathic, charismatic dictator in all his dimensions
In Stalin, Stephen Kotkin offers a biography that, at long last, is equal to this shrewd, sociopathic, charismatic dictator in all his dimensions. We see a man inclined to despotism who could be utterly charming, a pragmatic ideologue, a leader who obsessed over slights yet was a precocious geostrategic thinker-unique among Bolsheviks-and yet who made egregious strategic blunders.
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ISBN: 1594203792
Category: Biographies & Memoris
Subcategory: Historical
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Press; 1st Edition edition (November 6, 2014)
Pages: 976 pages
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