Stalin : : Passage to Revolution / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (912 p.) :; 41 b/w illus. 4 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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