Isbn: 9781582430041 - the autobiography of joseph stalin (16 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Third printing [stated]. [8], 261, [3] pages. Worried that the biography that Trotsky is writing about him in Mexico will reveal a crime from his past that could topple him from power, Stalin is forced to think back on his own memories of his life and rise to power. Richard Lourie is a historian and American foreign policy expert on Russia-United States relations, on which he consulted for Hillary Clinton in her unsuccessful 2008 presidential run. He served as Gorbachev's translator, has written a fictional autobiography of Joseph Stalin, a biography of Andrei Sakharov, and a prognosticative biography Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash, which explores the education and ascent of Putin during the dissolution of the USSR, and his career as Russia's autocrat, in order to estimate his probable future moves, while diagnosing Russia's spiritual ills and "narcissistic injuries" and "utter dependence on the ongoing will to power." He has translated over 30 books, and published articles and reviews in mainstream US media. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: Chilling and mesmerizing, Lourie's novel traces the Russian dictator's life from childhood to the apex of his career, exploring the nuances of Stalin's psychology. The USSR dictator narrates, in a grim and relentless voice, often referring to himself in the third person. His first words, Leon Trotsky is trying to kill me, reveal the fury and incipient dementia of his reaction to the news that his nemesis Trotsky, whom he has driven into exile in Mexico, is writing a biography of his former revolutionist comrade. Indignantly comparing Trotsky's libelous biography to his own egotistical version, and ostensibly refuting Trotsky's account, Stalin reveals the origins of his criminal mind and the extent to which he has indulged his murderous instincts. From the beatings he suffered at his father's hands, Stalin learned the perverse power and effectiveness of psychological detachment and physical cruelty. From Darwin he ecstatically gleans that there is no God, therefore no judgment from above. Lourie juxtaposes Trotsky's deeply intellectual analysis of Stalin with Stalin's own earthy account, which is Machiavellian conviction sieved through the mindset of a thug, less a matter of dialectics than of bullying. Stalin uses bank robbery to finance the Bolsheviks; in prison, his friends are criminals, not the intellectuals he despises. Lourie plausibly speculates on key events in Stalin's life, combining known history with well-researched probabilities, grounding the book in the actualities of this terrifying era while illuminating the unfathomable darkness of the mind that created it. Stalin realizes that Trotsky is on the heels of discovering his big secret, the one assassination Stalin has systematically concealed, which sealed the fate of his reign and of countless traitors at the hands of the brutal new leader. Of course he acts to silence Trotsky, and to change the course of history. This nightmarish glimpse into a monster's mind is confidently and frighteningly realistic, appalling and irresistible at once. Susan Gray (author photograph) (illustrator).…

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