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Stalin

New Biography of a Dictator

By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk

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Stalin

New Biography of a Dictator

By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk

An engrossing biography of the notorious Russian dictator by an author whose knowledge of Soviet-era archives far surpasses all others. Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk’s estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were victims of famine directly resulting from Stalin’s policies. What drove him toward such ruthlessness? This essential biography offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin the man and dictator. Without mythologizing Stalin as either benevolent or an evil genius, Khlevniuk resolves numerous controversies about specific events in the dictator’s life while assembling many hundreds of previously unknown letters, memos, reports, and diaries into a comprehensive, compelling narrative of a life that altered the course of world history. In brief, revealing prologues to each chapter, Khlevniuk takes his reader into Stalin’s favorite dacha, where the innermost circle of Soviet leadership gathered as their vozhd lay dying. Chronological chapters then illuminate major themes: Stalin’s childhood, his involvement in the Revolution and the early Bolshevik government under Lenin, his assumption of undivided power and mandate for industrialization and collectivization, the Terror, World War II, and the postwar period. At the book’s conclusion, the author presents a cogent warning against nostalgia for the Stalinist era. “This brilliant, authoritative, opinionated biography ranks as the best on Stalin in any language.”—Martin McCauley East-West Review “A historiographical and literary masterpiece.”—Mark Edele, Australian Book Review “A very digestible biography, yet one packed with revelations.”—Paul E. Richardson, Russian Life Magazine

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Yale University Press

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030016694X

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In Stalin's Shadow

Career of Sergo Ordzhonikidze

By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk,David J. Nordlander,Donald J. Raleigh

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In Stalin's Shadow

Career of Sergo Ordzhonikidze

By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk,David J. Nordlander,Donald J. Raleigh

In the voluminous secret history of the 1930s, one episode that still puzzles researchers is the death in 1937 of one of Stalin's key allies - his fellow Georgian, G.K. Ordzhonikidze. Whether he took his own life or, like Kirov, was murdered, the case of Ordzhonikidze intersects several long-debated problems in Soviet political history. What role did Politburo members play in decision making during the Stalin era? What formed the basis of Stalin's alliances? Were there conflicts between Stalin and his comrades and, if so, how far did they go? Was there in fact opposition to Stalin? These and other questions are addressed by one of Russia's best young historians whose pioneering work in previously closed party and government archives is refining our understanding of the political history of the Stalin era.

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Routledge

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1317468236

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Stalin

New Biography of a Dictator

By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk

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New Biography of a Dictator

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Substate Dictatorship

Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union

By: Yoram Gorlizki,Oleg V. Khlevniuk

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Substate Dictatorship

Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union

By: Yoram Gorlizki,Oleg V. Khlevniuk

An essential exploration of how authoritarian regimes operate at the local level How do local leaders govern in a large dictatorship? What resources do they draw on? Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk examine these questions by looking at one of the most important authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. Starting in the early years after the Second World War and taking the story through to the 1970s, they chart the strategies of Soviet regional leaders, paying particular attention to the forging and evolution of local trust networks.

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0300230818

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9780300230819

The History of the Gulag

From Collectivization to the Great Terror

By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk

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The History of the Gulag

From Collectivization to the Great Terror

By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk

The human cost of the Gulag, the Soviet labor camp system in which millions of people were imprisoned between 1920 and 1956, was staggering. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and others after him have written movingly about the Gulag, yet never has there been a thorough historical study of this unique and tragic episode in Soviet history. This groundbreaking book presents the first comprehensive, historically accurate account of the camp system. Russian historian Oleg Khlevniuk has mined the contents of extensive archives, including long-suppressed state and Communist Party documents, to uncover the secrets of the Gulag and how it became a central component of Soviet ideology and social policy.

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0300092849

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Master of the House

Stalin and His Inner Circle

By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk

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Master of the House

Stalin and His Inner Circle

By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk

Based on meticulous research in previously unavailable documents in the Soviet archives, this compelling book illuminates the secret inner mechanisms of power in the Soviet Union during the years when Stalin established his notorious dictatorship. Oleg V. Khlevniuk focuses on the top organ in Soviet Russia's political hierarchy of the 1930s--the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party--and on the political and interpersonal dynamics that weakened its collective leadership and enabled Stalin's rise. Khlevniuk's unparalleled research challenges existing theories of the workings of the Politburo and uncovers many new findings regarding the nature of alliances among Politburo members, Sergei Kirov's murder, the implementation of the Great Terror, and much more. The author analyzes Stalin's mechanisms of generating and retaining power and presents a new understanding, unmatched in texture and depth, of the highest tiers of the Communist Party in a crucial era of Soviet history.

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030016128X

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Road to Terror

Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939

By: J. Arch Getty,Oleg V. Naumov

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Road to Terror

Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939

By: J. Arch Getty,Oleg V. Naumov

Now updated with new facts, and abridged for use in Soviet history courses, this gripping book assembles top-secret Soviet documents, translated into English, from the era of Stalin's purges. The dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret transcripts, and other documents expose the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process."[book cover].

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0300142412

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The History of the Gulag

From Collectivization to the Great Terror

By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk

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From Collectivization to the Great Terror

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Master of the House

Stalin and His Inner Circle

By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk

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Stalin and His Inner Circle

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