Stalin : a biography /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Service, Robert, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The revolutionary
  • Stalin as we have know him
  • The family Dzhughashvili
  • The schooling of a priest
  • Poet and rebel
  • Marxist militant
  • The party and the Caucasus
  • On the run
  • At the centre of the party
  • Koba and Bolshevism
  • Osip of Siberia
  • Return to Petrograd
  • Leader for the party
  • The year 1917
  • October
  • People's Commissar
  • To the front!
  • The Polish corridor
  • With Lenin
  • Nation and revolution
  • Testament
  • The opportunities of struggle
  • Joseph and Nadya
  • Factionalist against factions
  • Despot
  • Ending the NEP
  • Terror-economics
  • Ascent to supremacy
  • The death of Nadya
  • Modernity's sorcerer
  • Fears in victory
  • Ruling the nations
  • Mind of terror
  • The great terrorist
  • The cult of impersonality
  • Brutal reprieve
  • Warlord
  • The world in sight
  • Approaches to war
  • The devils SUP
  • Barbarossa
  • Fighting on
  • Sleeping on the divan
  • To the death!
  • Supreme commander
  • The big three
  • Last campaigns
  • Victory!
  • The imperator
  • Delivering the blow
  • The outbreak of the cold war
  • Subjugating Eastern Europe
  • Stalinist rulership
  • Policies and purges
  • Emperor worship
  • Dangerous liaisons
  • Vozhd and intellectual
  • Ailing despot
  • Death and embalming
  • After Stalin.