European History in Perspective / Stalin
Revolutionary in an Era of War
(Sprache: Englisch)
Stalin's massive impact on Soviet history is often explained in terms of his inherent evil, personality defects and power lust. This volume argues that Stalin's thoughts and actions are best contextualized in the inter-relationship between war and...
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Stalin's massive impact on Soviet history is often explained in terms of his inherent evil, personality defects and power lust. This volume argues that Stalin's thoughts and actions are best contextualized in the inter-relationship between war and revolution in the first half of the twentieth century. Kevin McDermott incorporates recently declassified materials from the former Soviet Party archives and provides a critical review of western and Russian historiography.
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Stalin's massive impact on Soviet history is often explained in terms of his inherent evil, personality defects and power lust. While not rejecting these notions, Kevin McDermott argues that Stalin's thoughts and actions are best contextualised in the inter-relationship between war and revolution in the first half of the twentieth century. The author presents the case for taking the Soviet dictator seriously as a Marxist revolutionary whose fundamental beliefs and modus operandi were forged in the cauldron of civil and international wars, ideologically driven class wars and revolutionary upheavals associated with the 'age of catastrophe', 1914-45. Only by so doing can the complex motivations for such cataclysmic events as the Great Terror be adequately addressed.Incorporating recently declassified materials from the former Soviet Party archives, this new appraisal of Stalin also provides a critical review of the latest western and Russian historiography. It is essential reading for anyone studying the debates on one of the leading figures of Soviet history.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „European History in Perspective / Stalin “
Acknowledgements.- List of Abbreviations and Glossary of Terms.- Introduction.- Revolutionary.- Oligarch.- Moderniser.- Dictator.- Warlord.- Statesman.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.
Autoren-Porträt von Kevin Mcdermott
KEVIN MCDERMOTT is Senior Lecturer in Political History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is the author of The Czech Red Unions, 1918-1929, co-author of The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin and co-editor of Stalin's Terror: High Politics and Mass Repression in the Soviet Union.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kevin Mcdermott
- 2006, 2006, 240 Seiten, Maße: 14 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Education
- ISBN-10: 033371122X
- ISBN-13: 9780333711224
Sprache:
Englisch
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'One of the most helpful and up-to-date aids to the study of the Stalin years. Students will be indebted to the author for his pithy, judicious and balanced presentation of current debates.' - Christopher Read, University of Warwick, UK
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