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This book forms the second volume of Tucker's biography of Stalin, the first volume of which was "Stalin as Revolutionary". The author shows that Stalin was a Bolshevik of the radical right whose revolution cast the country deep into its imperial, autocratic past. In 1929 Stalin plunged Soviet Russia into a coercive "revolution from above", a decade-long effort to amass military-industrial power for a new war. He forced 25 million peasant families into state-run collectives and transformed the Communist Party into a servile instrument. In 1939, he concluded the pact with Hitler that enabled him to grasp at Eastern Europe while Hitler made war in the West. Tucker brings a fresh analysis to these events and to the Terror of the 1930s, revealing the motives and methods of what he calls the greatest murder mystery of this century.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Stalin in Power
• Author: Robert Charles Tucker
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 752
• EAN: 9780393308693
• ISBN: 0393308693
• ID: 04067486
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 590 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 140 × 36 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. April 1992

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