Stalin in Power Tucker Robert C.
Stalin in Power Tucker Robert C. This book forms the second volume of Tucker's biography of Stalin, the first volume of which was "Stalin as Revolutionary". In 1929 Stalin plunged Soviet Russia into…
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Stalin in Power Tucker Robert C.
This book forms the second volume of Tucker's biography of Stalin, the first volume of which was "Stalin as Revolutionary". 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. The author shows that Stalin was a Bolshevik of the radical right whose revolution cast the country deep into its imperial, autocratic past.
In 1939, he concluded the pact with Hitler that enabled him to grasp at Eastern Europe while Hitler made war in the West. He forced 25 million peasant families into state-run collectives and transformed the Communist Party into a servile instrument. Tucker brings a fresh analysis to these events and to the Terror of the 1930s, revealing the motives and methods of what he calls the greatest murder mystery of this