Stephen Kotkin
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Stephen Kotkin
Stalin - Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world's largest peasant economy into ';socialist modernity,' otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost.
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Stephen Kotkin
Stalin - Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life.
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Stephen Kotkin
Armageddon Averted
Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue-bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse-this compact, original, and engaging book offers the definitive account of one of the great historical events of the last fifty years.
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Magnetic Mountain
An account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. It argues that Stalinism offered itself as an opportunity for enlightenment.
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