| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 857 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Dating and Spelling -- A Note on Archives -- Maps -- Introduction: Fortune's Knave -- 1 The Georgian -- 2 The Pupil -- 3 Koba -- 4 Apprentice of the Revolution -- 5 Burning Bridges -- 6 The Outlaw -- 7 Trial by Fire -- 8 On the Margins -- 9 Becoming Bolshevik -- 10 Back in the Game -- 11 Revolutionary Baptism -- 12 The Committeeman -- 13 The Terrorist -- 14 Meeting the Mountain Eagle -- 15 Gendarme of the Revolution -- 16 The Professional -- 17 The Tiflis "Ex" -- 18 Journeyman for the Revolution -- 19 The Rebel Disarmed -- 20 Labor and Liquidators -- 21 The Roving Agent -- 22 The Man of Steel -- 23 The Expert -- 24 The Exile -- 25 Far from the Front -- 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 |
| Summary |
"This biography of the young Stalin is more than the story of how a revolutionary was made: it is the first serious investigation, using the full range of Russian and Georgian archives, to explain Stalin's evolution from a romantic and idealistic youth into a hardened political operative. Suny takes seriously the first half of Stalin's life: his intellectual development, his views on issue of nationalities and nationalism, and his role in the Social Democratic debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book narrates an almost tragic downfall; we see Stalin transform from a poor provincial seminarian, who wrote romantic nationalist poetry, into a fearsome and brutal ruler. Many biographers of Stalin turn to shallow psychological analysis in seeking to explain his embrace of revolution, focusing on the beatings he suffered at the hands of his father or his hero-worship of Lenins, or sensationalizing Stalin's involvement in violent activity. Suny seeks to show Stalin in the complex context of the oppressive tsarist police-state in which he lived and debates and party politics that animated the revolutionary circles in which he moved. Though working from fragmentary evidence from disparate sources, Suny is able to place Stalin in his intellectual and political context and reveal, not only a different analysis of the man's psychological and intellectual transformation, but a revisionist history of the revolutionary movements themselves before 1917"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
1917 Revolution |
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Caucasia |
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February Revolution |
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Georgia |
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Gori |
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Koba |
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Lado Ketskhoveli |
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Lenin |
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Marxism |
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Marxist |
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Menshevik |
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Russian Revolution |
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Russian history |
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Simon Sebag Montefiore |
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Social Democrats |
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Soso |
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Soviet history |
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Stalin Paradoxes of Power |
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Stalinist history |
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Stephen Kotkin |
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Tiflis |
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Trotsky |
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Vladimir Lenin |
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Young Stalin |
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tsarism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 24, 2020) |
| Subject |
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
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| SUBJECT |
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
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Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 fast |
| Subject |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
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| SUBJECT |
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Biography
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| Subject |
Soviet Union
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019034218 |
| ISBN |
9780691185934 |
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069118593X |
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9780691213590 |
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0691213593 |
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0691182035 |
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9780691182032 |
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0691202710 |
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9780691202716 |
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