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Stalin
ISBN-10: 0582784794
ISBN-13: 9780582784796
Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2006
Format: Paper; 248 pp
Published: 12/15/2005
Status: Instock
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.
"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
- Concise and up-to-date analysis of Stalin’s political life.
- Explains how Stalin managed to rise to power and rule the largest country in the world for more than a quarter of a century, achieving a divine-like status as a dictator.
- Lucidly and systematically accounts for Stalin’s terror as a political action.
- Analyses Stalin as global political figure during and post WWII.
- Reflects the current state of knowledge and adds new information from Stalin’s archives in Moscow.
- The author has worked on Stalin’s rule for nearly 30 years.
- Ideal for students of Russian History or European dictatorships.
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Educated in Japan and US, Hiroaki Kuromiya worked as a research fellow at King's College, Cambridge, 1986-1990 . He ahs worked on the period of Stalin's rule for nearly thirty years. His previous publications include, Stalin's Industrial Revolution: Politics and Workers, 1928-1932 (1988) and Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s-1990s (1998).
Professor Kuromiya is fully steeped in the new sources and fresh historiography of the fearsome dictator. He makes ample use of his earlier pioneering research on Soviet history as well as new documents declassified from the Soviet archives. [This] is the best short biography of Stalin that we have.
Professor Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University.
Stalin was once described – by Hitler – as “half beast, half giant”. His tyrannical rule of the Soviet Unionwas one of the bloodiest episodes in the modern history of the world. How did a man once regarded by his rivals as intellectually inferior come to achieve near-divine status as dictator of the largest country in the world?
In this concise biography, Hiroaki Kuromiya argues that the key to understanding the enigma of Stalin lies in his unadulterated political ambition. Subordinating all private emotion to his quest for power, Stalin was able to order the deaths of people close to him without sentimentality for the sake of his political goals. Stalin’s use of terror as a political action is lucidly and systematically explained: how he viewed political terror, why he used it so extensively, and how he felt about the deaths of millions. Employing his extensive research into recently uncovered documents on Stalin’s life, Kuromiya reflects the current state of knowledge in the field. The establishment of the Soviet Unionchanged the world order irreversibly. Kuromiya argues that without understanding Stalin, one cannot understand the twentieth century.
Hiroaki Kuromiya is Professor of History at Indiana University. He has been researching and writing about the period of Stalin's rule for nearly thirty years and is author of Stalin's Industrial Revolution: Politics and Workers, 1928-1932 (1988) and Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian--Russian Borderland, 1870s--1990s (1998).
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