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Stalin: Revolutionary in an Era of War (European History in Perspective) - Softcover

Buch 15 von 35: European History in Perspective

McDermott, Kevin

 
9780333711224: Stalin: Revolutionary in an Era of War (European History in Perspective)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 033371122X ISBN 13: 9780333711224
Verlag: Palgrave, 2006

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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 int

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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.

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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.

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Verlag
Palgrave
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
033371122X
ISBN 13 
9780333711224
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
236
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