Stalin : : Passage to Revolution / / Ronald Grigor Suny.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Suny, Ronald Grigor,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (912 p.) :; 41 b/w illus. 4 maps.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on Dating and Spelling --; A Note on Archives --; Maps --; Introduction: Fortune’s Knave --; Growing Up Georgian --; 1 The Georgian --; 2 The Pupil --; 3 Koba --; Breaking Left --; 4 Apprentice of the Revolution --; 5 Burning Bridges --; 6 The Outlaw --; 7 Trial by Fire --; The Making of a Bolshevik --; 8 On the Margins --; 9 Becoming Bolshevik --; 10 Back in the Game --; Revolutionary Underground --; 11 Revolutionary Baptism --; 12 The Committeeman --; 13 The Terrorist --; 14 Meeting the Mountain Eagle --; 15 Gendarme of the Revolution --; 16 The Professional --; Staying the Course --; 17 The Tiflis “Ex” --; 18 Journeyman for the Revolution --; 19 The Rebel Disarmed --; 20 Labor and Liquidators --; From Outside In --; 21 The Roving Agent --; 22 The Man of Steel --; 23 The Expert --; 24 The Exile --; 25 Far from the Front --; The Steep Path to Power --; 26 The Revolutionary --; 27 Reaping the Whirlwind --; 28 The Dark Before --; 29 On the Eve --; Conclusion: The Road Traveled --; Historians Look at Stalin: A Historiographical Discussion --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691185934; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704594; 9783110704723; 9783110690088
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691185934?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ronald Grigor Suny.

A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative yearsThis is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth from the provinces of tsarist Russia was transformed into a cunning and fearsome outlaw who would one day become one of the twentieth century's most ruthless dictators.In this monumental book, Ronald Grigor Suny sheds light on the least understood years of Stalin's career, bringing to life the turbulent world in which he lived and the extraordinary historical events that shaped him. Suny draws on a wealth of new archival evidence from Stalin's early years in the Caucasus to chart the psychological metamorphosis of the young Stalin, taking readers from his boyhood as a Georgian nationalist and romantic poet, through his harsh years of schooling, to his commitment to violent engagement in the underground movement to topple the tsarist autocracy. Stalin emerges as an ambitious climber within the Bolshevik ranks, a resourceful leader of a small terrorist band, and a writer and thinker who was deeply engaged with some of the most incendiary debates of his time.A landmark achievement, Stalin paints an unforgettable portrait of a driven young man who abandoned his religious faith to become a skilled political operative and a single-minded and ruthless rebel.