His research, narrative and arguments are as convincing as they are exhaustive. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. You'll get full access to our website, print and digital editions. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 September 2020. Mr. Kotkin’s volume joins an impressive shelf of books on Stalin. Not a light read, but a weighty tome of scholarship. Once registered you can read a total of 3 articles each month, plus: Already registered or a current subscriber?Login, Controversial journal paper stirs debate on Asian wartime slavery, Academics must emphasise that thinking critically does not mean dismissing everything as biased, say Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren, ‘Insufficient evidence’ for Warwick historian’s allegation that concentration camp survivor had lesbian affair with SS guard, university panel says, Ann Hughes enjoys a set of sharp, wide-ranging essays by a historian who revolutionised our understanding of early modern Europe. The very existence of such a document and whispers about it plagued Stalin for years, as did the political brawling of interminable meetings and conferences. *FREE* shipping on eligible orders. Stephen Kotkin's Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 is the story of how a political system forged an unparalleled personality and vice versa. Livro Impresso R$ 127,90. Kotkin seeks to place Stalin in a global (or at least Eurasian) geopolitical context and tells “the story of Russia's power in the world and Stalin's power in Russia, recast as the Soviet Union” (p. xi). But Stephen Kotkin's wonderfully broad-gauged work surpasses them all in both breadth and depth, showing brilliantly how the man, the time, the place, its history, and especially Russian/Soviet political culture, combined to produce one of history's greatest evil geniuses.- David Halloway, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, Stanford University; author of Stalin and the Bomb -Stephen Kotkin's first volume on Stalin is ambitious in conception and masterly in execution. I read his biography alongside this nonsense and that even more highlighted the inadequacy of this work. In his biography of Stalin, Kotkin rejects the inherited wisdom about Stalin's psychological makeup, showing us instead how Stalin's near paranoia was fundamentally political and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution's structural paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. Frete GRÁTIS em milhares de produtos com o Amazon Prime. . When it is complete, it will surely become the standard work, and I heartily recommend it. $16.45/mo after 30 days. This first volume leaves the reader longing for the story still to come.” Richard Pipes, The New York Review of Books: “This is a very serious biography that… is likely to well stand the test of time.” The Wall Street Journal: “Superb . Some chapters require close study, such as those on the Civil War of 1917-22, the evolution of the Soviet nationality programme, or the enduring brouhaha surrounding Lenin’s (oft-misdated, perhaps forged) “testament”. Recorded on July 29, 2015Part 1: Stalin was born in a small town in Georgia in which he was educated to become a priest. In the vast literature on the Soviet Union, there is no study to rival Stephen Kotkin’s massive first instalment of a planned three-volume biography of Joseph Stalin. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 November 2019, Excellent read, very informative and detailed. Please try again. On the other hand, and as we might expect in a work of this complexity, occasionally the author elides details, such as what Stalin learned after he “became familiar” with Lenin’s writing in 1901. Only Tolstoy might have matched it.- William Taubman, Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Amherst College; author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Biography-Stalin has had more than his fair share of biographies. The book is more a “marriage of biography and history” (p. xi) than a traditional biography. Previous page. Full Professorship (W3) of Special Education, Receive World University Rankings news first, Get job alerts, shortlist jobs and save job searches, Participate in reader discussions and post comments, Unlimited access to news, views, insights & reviews. He shows that, even if the Bolsheviks were able to exploit the situation and seize power, that did … This reviewer, at least, is already impatient to read the next two volumes for their author's mastery of detail and the swagger of his judgments.- David Johnson, Johnson's Russia List -Required reading for serious Russia-watchers... As the product of years of work and careful thought, it is for me a reminder of what it takes to get close to the truth about important and controversial subjects. Stalin - Volume 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928: Amazon.es: Kotkin, Stephen: Libros en idiomas extranjeros II, Waiting for Hitler, 1928–1941 (2017). This is a magisterial work on the grandest scale.- Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution: -More than any of Stalin's previous biographers, Stephen Kotkin humanizes one of the great monsters of history, thereby making the monstrosity more comprehensible than it has been before. This book’s extraordinary final chapter, “If Stalin had died”, cannot fail to whet readers’ appetites for the next volumes in the biography, when the leader and the Soviet peoples would face greater challenges, costly victories and monumental tragedies. Lenin, Kotkin leaves no doubt, led the way in both the revolution and in creating the cruel and despotic regime. Inescapably important reading.- John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University; author of George F. Kennan: A Life, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography: -In its size, sweep, sensitivity, and surprises, Stephen Kotkin's first volume on Stalin is a monumental achievement: the early life of a man we thought we knew, set against the world--no less--that he inhabited. 'Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928' is the first volume in a three volume series of tomes on the life of the Soviet dictator Iosef 'Soso' Jugashvili a.k.a Joseph Stalin by the eminent Princeton Professor of history and international affairs, Stephen Kotkin. The author does not appear to be watching his subject narrowly for early signs of the monstrous deformations that will later emerge. Kotkin reveals the full range of Stalin’s unique gifts and deep convictions. Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, ... he second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of our age . 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 top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. Stalin, Volume I: 1 Stalin, Vol. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. I have to wonder if I will read the two subsequent volumes. Again if you want a serious balanced consideration of Russia in the first half of the 20th century go elsewhere. What other items do customers buy after viewing this item? Stephen Kotkin offers a remarkable and comprehensive view of the 1917 Russian Revolution in “Stalin, Volume I”. Surely, one can plausibly conclude from the text that “the Master” was a missionary in the cause of world communism, who in spite of certain over-indulgences, lived somewhat like a religious ascetic. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941, Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity; THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. • • • Read more. Next page. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. When it is complete, it will surely become the standard work, and I heartily recommend it.- John Thornhill, Financial Times: -It is a measure of Kotkin's powers of research and explanation that Stalin's decisions can almost always be understood within the framework of his ideology and the context of his times.... With a ferocious determination worthy of his subject, the author debunks many of the myths to have encrusted themselves around Stalin.... [A] magnificent biography. Harder to fathom is the Great Terror of 1937-1938, when more than 1.5 million people were arrested and nearly 700,000 executed, including hundreds of thousands of loyal party members and state officials. Please try your request again later. In historical context, Kotkin profiles the three most important characters of the revolution; e.g. Hugely impressive.- Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Guardian: -Unlike a number of Stalin studies, this is not an etiology of evil. Please try again. 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