Author: Ronald Hingley
Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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482 pages of excellent text, with many great black and white photos. This major biography encompasses more than the life of one man. It is an equally compelling study of political process, an anatomy of power, and an examination of the tactics of rule by subtle manipulations as well as by conscious tyranny.
Author: Ian Grey
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Author: Kenneth Neill Cameron
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Author: Robert H. McNeal
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349074616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Author: Jules Archer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510707026
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Early in life, Joseph Stalin became convinced of the inevitability of social revolution. And in it, he was determined to play a prominent role. He carefully masked his great personal ambition during his long climb to power and devoted all this energies to furthering the cause of Lenin and Bolshevism. Only after Lenin’s death, with the Bolshevik takeover of Russia accomplished, did Stalin’s comrades in leadership find themselves forced to bow to Stalin’s will—or be eliminated. His rise to power was bloody and ruthless, yet under his twenty-nine-year leadership, Russia became a mighty industrial nation. Illiteracy was banished, interest in the arts began to flourish, and Russia moved toward amazing scientific triumphs. Man of Steel is the story of Joseph Stalin, the man who rose to become absolute master of Soviet Russia and who cast his shadow over the entire globe.
Author: Adam B. Ulam
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807070055
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Perestroika and glasnost have unleashed unprecedented criticism of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, and the terrible legacy of his regime has been acknowledged by Mikhail Gorbachev.
Author: Ian Grey
Publisher: New Word City
ISBN: 1640190562
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Joseph Stalin was one of the most frightening figures of the twentieth century. His name brings to mind brutal terrorism and ruthless oppression. Yet, as New York Times bestselling author Ian Grey shows, at the core of the Man of Steel was a humble, puritanical Georgian peasant. What set him above others was his intelligence, discipline, perception, indomitable will, and above all, a messianic determination to lead Russia to a grand destiny. Grey's comprehensive biography portrays Stalin as a complex, paradoxical figure - a leader whose power was rooted in the tsarist traditions he abhorred and whose tyranny was based on an ambition to ensure the strength of his party. In his single-minded dedication to the growth of Russia under communism, Stalin was able to disregard all sense of morality. Yet, through his magnetism, he commanded the respect of his colleagues and the adulation of his people. Even Winston Churchill held him in awe. Stalin is a powerful history of Russia's evolution from backward nation to world power, as well as a dramatic portrait of a man who was called both "The Implacable" and "Beloved Father."
Author: Derek Chapman
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780582857490
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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A history topic book on the theme of revolutionary leadership.
Author: Albert Marrin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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An account of the life of the man who shaped the Soviet Union, from pre-revolutionary Russia to its evolution as a superpower and the descent of the "Iron Curtain."
Author: Michael Gorman
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3668232296
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Essay from the year 2015 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Ages of World Wars, grade: 92.0, Westminster College, language: English, abstract: It is proposed that Joseph Stalin, the man as well as the symbol, be analyzed in order to reveal the man behind the icon. This research will include details of Stalin's everyday life and his vacations on the Black Sea, the “Great Terror,” World War II, and the terrifying decades of his supreme power. It will also go into detail about the suicide of Stalin's wife, Nadya, and how it affected him for the rest of his life, what kind of man he was as a father, as well as the lives of the members of his inner circle and their fall from grace. From a historical context Joseph Stalin comes off as being psychotic, merciless, killer, and a brutal dictator. This research will attempt to reveal that this dictator of a nuclear capable world super-power, merges as being, although a bit paranoid, surprisingly normal and quite human.
