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Author Davies, Sarah (Sarah Rosemary)

Title Stalin on Stalinism : the dictator and his world / Sarah Davies and James Harris
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014

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Contents Introduction: Stalin's Vision -- Part I. Information and Interpretation -- "Bolshevik" Leadership -- Spymania -- Capitalist Encirclement -- Part II. The Power of Stalin's Words -- The Leader Cult -- The Working Class -- Soviet Culture -- Conclusion
Summary "Drawing on declassified material from Stalin's personal archive, this is the first systematic attempt to analyze how Stalin saw his world--both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Stalin rarely left his offices and viewed the world largely through the prism of verbal and written reports, meetings, articles, letters, and books. Analyzing these materials, Sarah Davies and James Harris provide a new understanding of Stalin's thought process and leadership style and explore not only his perceptions and misperceptions of the world but the consequences of these perceptions and misperceptions"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Political and social views
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Language
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
Political leadership -- Soviet Union -- History
Communism -- Soviet Union -- Philosophy
Political culture -- Soviet Union -- History
Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Dictators -- Soviet Union -- Biography
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
Communism -- Philosophy
Dictators
Heads of state
Language and languages
Political and social views
Political culture
Political leadership
Politics and government
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Harris, James R., 1964-
ISBN 9780300182811
0300182813