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Stalin. Volume 1, Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928 by Kotkin, Stephen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has the quality of myth: A poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a revolutionary and finds a leadership role within a small group of marginal zealots. When the old world is unexpectedly brought down in a total war, the band seizes control of the country, and the new regime it founds as the vanguard of a new world order is ruthlessly dominated from within by the former seminarian until he stands as the absolute ruler of a vast and terrible state apparatus, with dominion over Eurasia. But the largest country in the world is also a poor and backward one, far behind the great capitalist countries in industrial and military power, encircled on all sides. Shortly after seizing total power, Stalin conceives of the largest program of social reengineering ever attempted: the root-and-branch uprooting and collectivization of agriculture and industry across the entire Soviet Union. To stand up to the capitalists he will force into being an industrialized, militarized, collectivized great power is an act of will. Millions will die,

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Author

Kotkin, Stephen

Publisher

Penguin Press, The

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781594203800

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.24 / 5 (513 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14