The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going?, Trotsky Leon

Автор: Kotkin, Stephen
Название: Stalin, Vol. II
ISBN: 0141027959 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141027951
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard'The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of our age ... The War and Peace of history: a book you fear you will never finish, but just cannot put down' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Well before 1929, Stalin had achieved dictatorial power over the Soviet empire, but now he decided that the largest peasant economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity, whatever it took. What it took, and what Stalin managed to force through, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways.

Rather than a tale of a deformed or paranoid personality creating a political system, this is a story of a political system shaping a personality. Building and running a dictatorship, with power of life or death over hundreds of millions, in conditions of capitalist self-encirclement, made Stalin the person he became. Wholesale collectivization of agriculture, some 120 million peasants, necessitated levels of coercion that were extreme even for Russia, but Stalin did not flinch; the resulting mass starvation and death elicited criticism inside the party even from those Communists committed to the eradication of capitalism.

By 1934, when the situation had stabilized and socialism had been built in the countryside too, the internal praise came for his uncanny success in anticapitalist terms. But Stalin never forgot and never forgave, with bloody consequences as he strove to consolidate the state with a brand new elite. Stalin had revived a great power with a formidable industrialized military.

But the Soviet Union was effectively alone, with no allies and enemies perceived everywhere. The quest to find security would bring Soviet Communism into an improbable pact with Nazi Germany. But that bargain did not work out as envisioned.

The lives of Stalin and Hitler, and the fates of their respective countries, drew ever closer to collision. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler: 1929-1941 is, like its predecessor Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878-1928, nothing less than a history of the world from Stalin's desk. It is also, like its predecessor, a landmark achievement in the annals of the biographer's art.

Kotkin's portrait captures the vast structures moving global events, and the intimate details of decision-making.

Автор: Trotsky, Leon
Название: The History of the Russian Revolution
ISBN: 0241301319 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241301319
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book presents, from the perspective of one of its central actors, the profound liberating character of the early Russian Revolution. Originally published in three parts, Trotsky's masterpiece is collected here in a single volume. It is still the most vital and inspiring record of the Russian Revolution ever published.

Автор: Trotsky Leon
Название: Lessons of October
ISBN: 1608467384 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781608467389
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: An critical examination of the key actors and larger social movements that led to the rise of the Bolsheviks.

Автор: Service Robert
Название: Trotsky
ISBN: 0330439693 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330439695
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: A riveting new biography of Leon Trotsky from the critically acclaimed author of Lenin and Stalin

Автор: Patenaude Bertrand M.
Название: Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary
ISBN: 0060820691 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060820695
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much passion, controversy, and curiosity as Leon Trotsky. His role in history--his epic rise and fall, his fiery persona, his violent end in Mexico in August 1940--holds a fascination that transcends the history of the Russian Revolution. Bertrand M. Patenaude masterfully interweaves the story of Trotsky's final years with flashbacks to pivotal episodes in his career as a young Marxist, revolutionary hero, Red Army chief, Bolshevik leader, outcast from Stalin's USSR, and ultimately heretic of the Kremlin, targeted for assassination by its secret police. Gripping, tragic, and based on extensive firsthand research, "Trotsky" brilliantly illuminates the fateful and dramatic life of one of history's most captivating and important figures.