Stalin : a biography /
"Drawing on hitherto unpublished material from the Moscow archives, only recently opened up to Western scholars, and on personal testimonies and private papers gathered from all over Russia, Georgia and Abkhazia, Service challenges the conventional view of the Soviet leader as simply a murderou...
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London :
Macmillan,
2004
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Table of Contents:
- The revolutionary
- Stalin as We Have Known Him
- The Family Dzhughashvili
- The Schooling of a Priest
- Poet and Rebel
- Marxist Militant
- The Party and the Caucasus
- On the Run
- At the Centre of the Party
- Koba and Bolshevism
- Osip of Siberia
- Return to Petrograd
- Leader for the party
- The Year 1917
- October
- People's Commissar
- To the Front!
- The Polish Corridor
- With Lenin
- Nation and Revolution
- Testament
- The Opportunities of Struggle
- Joseph and Nadya
- Factionalist Against Factions
- Despot
- Ending the Nep
- Terror-Economics
- Ascent to Supremacy
- The Death of Nadya
- Modernity's Sorcerer
- Fears in Victory
- Ruling the Nations
- Mind of Terror
- The Great Terrorist
- The Cult of Impersonality
- Brutal Reprieve
- Warlord
- The World in Sight
- Approaches to War
- The Devils Sup
- Barbarossa
- Fighting On
- Sleeping on the Divan
- To the Death!
- Supreme Commander
- The Big Three
- Last Campaigns
- Victory!
- The imperator
- Delivering the Blow
- The Outbreak of the Cold War
- Subjugating Eastern Europe
- Stalinist Rulership
- Policies and Purges
- Emperor Worship
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Vozhd and Intellectual
- Ailing Despot
- Death and Embalming
- After Stalin