Stalin: A Biography артикул 8234a.
Stalin: A Biography артикул 8234a.

Robert Service is widely acknowledged as one of our finest contemporary historians of Russia In this devastating biography of Joseph Stalin, he provides the first full-scale study for more than twenty years of "one of the most notorious figures in history" Drawing on hitherto unpublished material from the Moscow archives, only recently овхбщ opened up to Western scholars, and on personal testimonies and private papers gathered from all over Russia, Georgia and Abkhazia, Service challenges the conventional view of the Soviet leader as simply a murderous bureaucrat When he rose to supreme power in 1928 Stalin was fifty Service describes in unprecedented detail the formative influences that created the 'Man of Steel': his early childhood in Georgia as the son of a violent drunkard and a devout woman; his enrolment in a religious seminary; and his days as a young revolutionary and dedicated Marxist, whose zeal saw him an established and able member of the Bolshevik Party leadership long before the Russian Revolution We see Stalin's role in the civil war of 1918-20 and the way in which his actions throughout that conflict prefigure the Stalin of the Great Terror But Service also shows us a man of ideas: a voracious reader and accomplished poet whose analytical rigour was a match for Lenin and his fellow architects of Soviet Russia Evidence about Stalin has always been opaque, orchestrated by his relentless silencing of witnesses and his systematic distortion, concealment and destruction of documents Robert Service's thirty-year engagement with his subject and his recent meticulous research enable him to reconstruct the man behind the myths, in what is the most authoritative account of Stalin's long career, of his impact and of his extraordinary personality Формат: 16 см x 24 см Автор Robert Service.  DrinkwaИздательство: MacMillan, 2004 г Суперобложка, 760 стр ISBN 0 333 72627 8, 0-333-72627-8 Язык: Английский.