Stalin: A BiographyOverthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story behind this notorious twentieth-century figure. Drawing on unexplored archives and personal testimonies gathered from across Russia and Georgia, this is the first full-scale biography of the Soviet dictator in twenty years. |
Contents
STALIN AS WE HAVE KNOWN HIM | 3 |
THE FAMILY DZHUGHASHVILI | 13 |
THE SCHOOLING OF A PRIEST | 23 |
POET AND REBEL | 32 |
MARXIST MILITANT | 43 |
THE PARTY AND THE CAUCASUS | 56 |
ON THE RUN | 68 |
AT THE CENTRE OF THE PARTY | 81 |
THE GREAT TERRORIST | 346 |
THE CULT OF IMPERSONALITY | 357 |
BRUTAL REPRIEVE | 367 |
WARLORD | 377 |
THE WORLD IN SIGHT | 379 |
APPROACHES TO WAR | 390 |
THE DEVILS SUP | 399 |
BARBAROSSA | 410 |
KOBA AND BOLSHEVISM | 92 |
OSIP OF SIBERIA | 102 |
RETURN TO PETROGRAD | 113 |
LEADER FOR THE PARTY | 125 |
THE YEAR 1917 | 127 |
OCTOBER | 140 |
PEOPLES COMMISSAR | 150 |
TO THE FRONT | 163 |
THE POLISH CORRIDOR | 175 |
WITH LENIN | 186 |
NATION AND REVOLUTION | 197 |
TESTAMENT | 208 |
THE OPPORTUNITIES OF STRUGGLE | 219 |
JOSEPH AND NADYA | 230 |
FACTIONALIST AGAINST FACTIONS | 240 |
DESPOT | 251 |
ENDING THE NEP | 253 |
TERRORECONOMICS | 265 |
ASCENT TO SUPREMACY | 276 |
THE DEATH OF NADYA | 289 |
MODERNITYS SORCERER | 299 |
FEARS IN VICTORY | 310 |
RULING THE NATIONS | 323 |
MIND OF TERROR | 336 |
FIGHTING ON | 420 |
SLEEPING ON THE DIVAN | 430 |
TO THE DEATH | 439 |
SUPREME COMMANDER | 449 |
THE BIG THREE | 459 |
LAST CAMPAIGNS | 469 |
VICTORY | 478 |
THE IMPERATOR | 489 |
DELIVERING THE BLOW | 491 |
THE OUTBREAK OF THE COLD WAR | 501 |
SUBJUGATING EASTERN EUROPE | 511 |
STALINIST RULERSHIP | 521 |
POLICIES AND PURGES | 531 |
EMPEROR WORSHIP | 541 |
DANGEROUS LIAISONS | 551 |
VOZHD AND INTELLECTUAL | 560 |
AILING DESPOT | 571 |
DEATH AND EMBALMING | 581 |
AFTER STALIN | 591 |
Glossary | 605 |
Notes | 608 |
Select Bibliography | 661 |
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