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100 1  Kotkin, Stephen. 
245 10 Stalin :|bparadoxes of power, 1878-1928.|nVol. 1|h[Hoopla 
       electronic resource] /|cStephen Kotkin. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bRecorded Books, Inc.,|c2014. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
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511 0  Narrated by Paul Hecht. 
520    A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our 
       understanding of Stalin and his world It has the quality 
       of myth: A poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an 
       oppressed outer province of the Russian Empire, reinvents 
       himself as a revolutionary and finds a leadership role 
       within a small group of marginal zealots. When the old 
       world is unexpectedly brought down in a total war, the 
       band seizes control of the country, and the new regime it 
       founds as the vanguard of a new world order is ruthlessly 
       dominated from within by the former seminarian until he 
       stands as the absolute ruler of a vast and terrible state 
       apparatus, with dominion over Eurasia. We think we know 
       the story well. Remarkably, Stephen Kotkin's epic new 
       biography shows us how much we still have to learn. Volume
       One of Stalin begins and ends in January 1928 as Stalin 
       boards a train bound for Siberia, about to embark upon the
       greatest gamble of his political life. He is now the ruler
       of the largest country in the world, but a poor and 
       backward one, far behind the great capitalist countries in
       industrial and military power, encircled on all sides. In 
       Siberia, Stalin conceives of the largest program of social
       reengineering ever attempted: the root-and-branch 
       uprooting and collectivization of agriculture and industry
       across the entire Soviet Union. To stand up to the 
       capitalists he will force into being an industrialized, 
       militarized, collectivized great power is an act of will. 
       Millions will die, and many more will suffer, but Stalin 
       will push through to the end against all resistance and 
       doubts. Where did such power come from? The product of a 
       decade of scrupulous and intrepid research, Stalin 
       contains a host of astonishing revelations. Kotkin gives 
       an intimate first-ever view of the Bolshevik regime's 
       inner geography, bringing to the fore materials from 
       Soviet military intelligence and the secret police. He 
       details Stalin's invention of a fabricated trial and mass 
       executions as early as 1918, the technique he would later 
       impose across the whole country. The book places Stalin's 
       momentous decision for collectivization more deeply than 
       ever in the tragic history of imperial Russia. Above all, 
       Kotkin offers a convincing portrait and explanation of 
       Stalin's monstrous power and of Russian power in the 
       world. Stalin restores a sense of surprise to the way we 
       think about the Soviet Union, revolution, dictatorship, 
       the twentieth century, and indeed the art of history 
       itself. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Stalin, Joseph,|d1878-1953. 
600 10 Stalin, Joseph,|d1878-1953|xPsychology. 
650  0 Heads of state|zSoviet Union|vBiography. 
650  0 Dictators|zSoviet Union|vBiography. 
650  0 Political culture|zSoviet Union|xHistory. 
651  0 Soviet Union|xPolitics and government|y1917-1936. 
651  0 Soviet Union|xPolitics and government|y1936-1953. 
651  0 Soviet Union|xHistory|y1925-1953. 
700 1  Hecht, Paul.|4nrt 
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