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Scorched Earth - Stalin's Reign of Terror (Hardcover)
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Scorched Earth - Stalin's Reign of Terror (Hardcover)
Series: Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes
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German scholar Joerg Baberowski is one of the world's leading
experts on the Stalin era, but his work has seldom been translated
into English. This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad
violence with which Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts
Stalinism as a cruel and deliberate attack on Russian society,
driven by "totalitarian ambitions" and the goal of modernizing and
rationalizing a backward people. Baberowski takes a twofold
approach, emphasizing Stalin's personal role and responsibility as
well as the continuity he sees in Communist aims and ideology since
1917. Unlike recent apologist accounts that focus on the challenges
of modernization or on the operational complexities of managing the
Soviet state, this hard-hitting analysis unequivocally locates the
origins of the terror in the culture of violence and the techniques
of power. Detailed, well-documented, and including many new details
on the workings of the Stalinist state, this powerful work
encompasses the dictator's brutal reign from his achievement of
total power in 1929 to his death in 1953.
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