Stalin (eBook)

Passage to Revolution

Ronald Grigor Suny (Autor)

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2020
912 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18593-4 (ISBN)

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A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative yearsThis is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth from the provinces of tsarist Russia was transformed into a cunning and fearsome outlaw who would one day become one of the twentieth century's most ruthless dictators.In this monumental book, Ronald Grigor Suny sheds light on the least understood years of Stalin's career, bringing to life the turbulent world in which he lived and the extraordinary historical events that shaped him. Suny draws on a wealth of new archival evidence from Stalin's early years in the Caucasus to chart the psychological metamorphosis of the young Stalin, taking readers from his boyhood as a Georgian nationalist and romantic poet, through his harsh years of schooling, to his commitment to violent engagement in the underground movement to topple the tsarist autocracy. Stalin emerges as an ambitious climber within the Bolshevik ranks, a resourceful leader of a small terrorist band, and a writer and thinker who was deeply engaged with some of the most incendiary debates of his time.A landmark achievement, Stalin paints an unforgettable portrait of a driven young man who abandoned his religious faith to become a skilled political operative and a single-minded and ruthless rebel.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 41 b/w illus. 4 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: 1917 Revolution • activism • Armenian Revolutionary Federation • Armenians • assassination • autocracy • Batumi • bolsheviks • Bourgeoisie • bureaucrat • Capitalism • Caucasia • caucus • Central Committee • class conflict • Coalition Government • communism • Communist Party of the Soviet Union • comrade • cossacks • counter-revolutionary • Dictatorship • dictatorship of the proletariat • Exclusion • February Revolution • Foray • Georgia • Georgian language • Georgians • Goloshchekin • Gori • hostility • Ideology • Ilia Chavchavadze • imperialism • Intelligentsia • Irakli Tsereteli • Isidore Ramishvili • Jews • Karl Kautsky • Koba • Kote Tsintsadze • Kutaisi • Labour movement • Lado Ketskhoveli • Lenin • Leninism • Leon Trotsky • Lev Kamenev • Liquidationism • Marxism • Marxist • Menshevik • mensheviks • Militant (Trotskyist group) • narrative • Nationalism • Nationality • newspaper • Nikolai Bukharin • Nobility • Noe Khomeriki • Noe Ramishvili • Okhrana • Pamphlet • party discipline • Party leader • peasant • Political culture • Political Party • Political prisoner • Politician • Politics • Populism • printing press • proclamation • Propaganda • Radicalism (historical) • Reactionary • Rebellion • Reformism • resentment • Revolution • revolutionary movement • Revolutionary Socialism • revolutionary struggle • Revolution of 1905 • Russian Empire • Russian History • Russian Revolution • russians • Russian Social Democratic Labour Party • secret police • Self-determination • seminary • Simon Sebag Montefiore • Social Class • Social Democracy • Social Democrats • Socialist Revolutionary Party • Soso • Soviet history • Soviet Union • Stalinism • Stalinist history • Stalin Paradoxes of Power • state duma • Stepan Shaumian • Stephen Kotkin • Sverdlov • Tbilisi • terrorism • The Other Hand • Tiflis • Trade Union • Trotsky • tsarism • Tsarist autocracy • Vladimir Lenin • war • Working Class • Writing • Young Stalin
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18593-X / 069118593X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18593-4 / 9780691185934