Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941

Tucker, Robert C.

ISBN 10: 039302881X / ISBN 13: 9780393028812

Published by W W Norton & Co Inc, U.S.A., 1990

About this Item

This first edition is in excellent condition with very little wear. The binding is tight and the interior pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. The jacket has some rubbing damage along the edges and spine extremes from general shelf life.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039302881X
• ISBN 13: 9780393028812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

This book forms the second volume of Tucker's biography of Stalin, the first volume of which, "Stalin as Revolutionary", was recently reissued by Norton in the United Kingdom. Robert Tucker shows that Stalin was a Bolshevik of the radical right whose revolution cast the country deep into its imperial, autocratic past. In 1929 Stalin plunged Soviet Russia into a coercive "revolution from above", a decade long effort to amass military-industrial power for a new war. He forced 25 million peasant families into state-run collectives and transformed the Communist Party into a servile instrument. In 1939, he concluded the pact with Hitler that enabled him to grasp at Eastern Europe while Hitler made war in the West. Tucker brings a fresh and authoritative analysis to these events and to the Terror of the 1930s, revealing the motives and methods of what he calls the greatest murder mystery of this century.

About the Author

Robert C. Tucker is professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University and past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.