{"product_id":"stalin-volume-i-paradoxes-of-power-1878-1928","title":"Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928","description":"\u003cb\u003e A masterly account . . . Kotkin has given us a textured, gripping examination of the foundational years of the man most responsible for the construction of the Soviet state in all its brutal glory.   \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is a very serious biography that . . . is likely to well stand the test of time.   \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Superb . . . Only Mr. Kotkin s book approaches the highest standard of scholarly rigor and general-interest readability.   \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe product of a decade of intrepid research, \u003ci\u003eStalin\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark achievement. Stephen Kotkin offers a biography that, at long last, is equal to this shrewd, sociopathic, charismatic dictator in all his dimensions. We see a man inclined to despotism who could be utterly charming; a pragmatic ideologue; a leader who obsessed over slights yet was a precocious geostrategic thinker unique among Bolsheviks and yet who made egregious strategic blunders. Through it all, we see Stalin s unflinching persistence, his sheer force of will perhaps the ultimate key to understanding his indelible mark on history. Drawing on Kotkin s exhaustive study of Soviet archival materials as well as vast scholarly literature, \u003ci\u003eStalin\u003c\/i\u003e recasts the way we think about the Soviet Union, revolution, dictatorship, the twentieth century, and indeed the art of history itself.","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53940715290962,"sku":"9780143127864","price":26.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_23d789d1-d4df-4a6d-95fe-b725a804e9d6.jpg?v=1783359672","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/stalin-volume-i-paradoxes-of-power-1878-1928","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}