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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Kotkin, Stephen.     Subjects     Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953     Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Psychology.     Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.     Dictators -- Soviet Union -- Biography.     Political culture -- Soviet Union -- History.     Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936.     Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.     Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kotkin, Stephen.       by title:      Stalin. Waiting for ...       by call number:      947.0842 S782kw     Search the Web     Kotkin, Stephen.     Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953     Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Psychology.     Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.     Dictators -- Soviet Union -- Biography.     Political culture -- Soviet Union -- History.     Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936.     Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.     Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953.       MARC Display

Stalin. Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 / Stephen Kotkin. by Kotkin, Stephen. Penguin Press, 2017. Call #: 947.0842 S782kw Subjects Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953   Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Psychology.   Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.   Dictators -- Soviet Union -- Biography.   Political culture -- Soviet Union -- History.   Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936.   Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.   Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953. Series Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin ; vol. 2. URL856 View a review of this book from the New York Times website. ISBN:  9781594203800 (hc.) Alternate title:  Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 Description:  xvii, 1154 p., [32] p. of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Part I: Equal to the myth -- Triumph of the will -- Apocalypse -- Victory -- Terrorism -- A great power -- Part II: Terror as statecraft -- On a bluff -- Enemies hunting enemies -- "What went on in no. 1's brain?" -- Missing piece -- Part III: Three-card monte -- Hammer -- Pact -- Smashed pig -- Greed -- Fear -- Coda. Little Corner, Saturday, June 21, 1941. Summary:  "The second part of a projected three-volume biography of the Soviet leader (following Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928) 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 top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band seizes control of the country in the aftermath of total world war, the former seminarian ruthlessly dominates the new regime until he stands as absolute ruler of a vast and terrible state apparatus, with dominion over Eurasia. In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world's largest peasant economy into "socialist modernity," otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost. What it cost, and what Stalin ruthlessly enacted, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways. Building and running a dictatorship, with life and death power over hundreds of millions, made Stalin into the uncanny figure he became. The story of how a political system forged an unparalleled personality and vice versa. The wholesale collectivization of some 120 million peasants necessitated levels of coercion that were extreme even for Russia, and the resulting mass starvation elicited criticism inside the party even from those Communists committed to the eradication of capitalism. But Stalin did not flinch. By 1934, when the Soviet Union had stabilized and socialism had been implanted in the countryside, praise for his stunning anti-capitalist success came from all quarters. Stalin, however, never forgave and never forgot, with shocking consequences as he strove to consolidate the state with a brand new elite of young strivers like himself. Stalin's obsessions drove him to execute nearly a million people, including the military leadership, diplomatic and intelligence officials, and innumerable leading lights in culture. While Stalin revived a great power, building a formidable industrialized military, the Soviet Union was effectively alone and surrounded by perceived enemies. The quest for security would bring Soviet Communism to a shocking and improbable pact with Nazi Germany. But that bargain would not unfold as envisioned. The lives of Stalin and Hitler, and the fates of their respective dictatorships, drew ever closer to collision, as the world hung in the balance. A history of the world during the build-up to its most fateful hour, from the vantage point of Stalin's seat of power."--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Biography 947.0842 S782kw Core Collection - Adult Checked out Jul 16, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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