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" Stalin : "
Edvard Radzinsky ; translated by H.T. Willetts.
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BL
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1014857
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b769227
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| Uniform Title
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Stalin.English
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| Main Entry
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Radzinskiĭ, Ėdvard.
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Stalin : : the first in-depth biography based on explosive new documents from Russia's secret archives /\ Edvard Radzinsky ; translated by H.T. Willetts.
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1st ed.
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New York :: Doubleday,, ©1996.
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xii, 607 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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0385473974
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: 0385479549
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: 9780385473972
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: 9780385479547
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-594) and index.
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| Contents
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Soso : his life and death. The little angel ; Childhood riddles ; The end of Soso -- Koba. Enigmatic Koba ; The new Koba ; A grand master's games ; The great utopia ; The crisis manager ; The birth of Stalin -- Stalin : his life, his death. The October leaders meet their end : Lenin ; The end of the October leaders ; The country at breaking point ; The dreadful year ; The congress of victors ; The bloodbath begins ; "The people of my wrath" destroyed ; The fall of "the Party's favorite" ; Creation of a new country ; Night life ; Tending terror's sacred flame ; Toward the green dream ; Two leaders ; The first days of war ; Interlude : a family in wartime ; Onward to victory ; The leader's plan ; The return of fear ; The apocalypse that never was ; The last secret.
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Viktor Abakumov. -- Alliluyev. -- Alexander Beloborodov. -- Lavrenti Beria. -- Nikolai Bukharin. -- Mikhail Bulgakov. -- Matryona Petrovna Butusova. -- Nikolai Chkheidze. -- Winston Churchill. -- Anton Denikin. -- G. Dimitrov. -- Dzhugashvili. -- Sergei Eisenstein. -- Mikhail Gorbachev. -- Maxim Gorky. -- Adolf Hitler. -- Valechka Istomina. -- Lazar Kaganovich. -- Lev Kamenev. -- Nikita Khrushchev. -- Sergei Kirov. -- Koba. -- Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya. -- Nikolai Krylenko. -- Lenin. -- Peter Lozgachev. -- Malenkov. -- Karl Marx. -- Anastas Mikoyan. -- Molotov. -- Osip Mandelstam. -- Grigori Ordzhonikidze. -- Alexander Orlov. -- Boris Pasternak. -- Peter Pavlenko. -- Georgi Plekhanov. -- Yuri Pyatakov. -- Karl Radek. -- Fyodor Raskolnikov. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt. -- Alex Rybin. -- A. Rykov. -- Martemyan Ryutin. -- Olga Shatunovskaya. -- Soso. -- Maria Svanidze. -- Yakov Sverdlov. -- S. Timoshenko. -- M. Tomsky. -- Leon Trotsky. -- Harry Truman. -- Irakli Tsereteli. -- Nikolai Vlasik. -- Klim Voroshilov. -- Andrei Vyshinsky. -- World War I. -- World War II. -- Genrikh Yagoda. -- Nikolai Yezhov. -- Nikolai Yudenich. -- Andrei Zhdanov. -- Georgi Zhukov. -- Zinoviev.
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Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky has broken down the iron curtain of myth, secrecy, and lies that has surrounded Stalin's life and career, painting a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined. Stalin was a man for whom power was all, terror a useful weapon, and deceit a constant companion. Even the very first thing we know about Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, a.k.a. Stalin ("the man of steel"), is, Radzinsky shows, false: he was not born on December 21, 1879, as officially maintained, but a full year earlier. As Radzinsky narrates the high drama of Stalin's epic quest for domination - first within the Communist Party, then over the Soviet Union and the world - he uncovers the startling truth about this most enigmatic of historical figures. Only now, in the post-Soviet era, can what was long suppressed be told: Stalin's long-denied involvement with terrorism as a young revolutionary; the real story of how he mangled his left arm; the crucial importance of his misunderstood, behind-the-scenes role during the October Revolution; his often hostile relationship with Lenin, who used but never fully trusted him; the details of his organization of terror, culminating in the infamous show trials of the 1930s; his secret dealings with Hitler, and how they backfired; and the horrifying plans he was making before his death to send the Soviet Union's Jews to concentration camps - tantamount to a potential second Holocaust. Radzinsky also takes an intimate look at Stalin's private life, marked by his turbulent relationship with his wife Nadezhda, and re-creates the circumstances that led to her suicide. Finally, Radzinsky discovers one of Stalin's elite bodyguards, who breaks forty years of silence to give the strongest evidence yet of the conspiracy behind Stalin's death.
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Stalin, Joseph,1878-1953.
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Stalin, Joseph,1878-1953
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Stalin, Joseph,1879-1953.
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Heads of state-- Soviet Union, Biography.
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Heads of state-- Soviet Union-- Biography-- Sources.
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Soviet Union-- History-- 1925-1953-- Sources.
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Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953-- Sources.
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Heads of state-- Biography.-- Soviet Union.
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Heads of state.
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Soviet Union, History, 1925-1953.
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Soviet Union, History, 1925-1953.
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Soviet Union.
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| Dewey Classification
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947.084/2
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| LC Classification
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DK268.S8R2913 1996
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B S782ra
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15.70bcl
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