This book forms the second volume of Tucker's biography of Stalin, the first volume of which was "Stalin as Revolutionary." The author shows that Stalin was a Bolshevik of the radical right whose revolution cast the country deep into its imperial, autocratic past. In 1929 Stalin plunged Soviet Russia into a coercive "revolution from above," a decade-long effort to amass military-industrial power for a new war. He forced 25 million peasant families into state-run collectives and transformed the Communist Party into a servile instrument. In 1939, he concluded the pact with Hitler that enabled...
This book forms the second volume of Tucker's biography of Stalin, the first volume of which was "Stalin as Revolutionary." The author shows that Stal...
Leadership, a mainstay of Soviet political studies, has been a much-neglected subject since the collapse of the Soviet regime. However, developments in post Soviet affairs show that leadership still matters greatly, even as democratization in many states has opened up the political process to wider circles of the population. This volume explores ne
Leadership, a mainstay of Soviet political studies, has been a much-neglected subject since the collapse of the Soviet regime. However, developments i...
