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Stalin, Vol. II - Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 (Paperback)
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Stalin, Vol. II - Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 (Paperback)
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A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 'A brilliant,
compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon
Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard 'The second volume of what will
surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of our
age ... The War and Peace of history: a book you fear you will
never finish, but just cannot put down' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday
Times Well before 1929, Stalin had achieved dictatorial power over
the Soviet empire, but now he decided that the largest peasant
economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity,
whatever it took. What it took, and what Stalin managed to force
through, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and
enduring ways. Rather than a tale of a deformed or paranoid
personality creating a political system, this is a story of a
political system shaping a personality. Building and running a
dictatorship, with power of life or death over hundreds of
millions, in conditions of capitalist self-encirclement, made
Stalin the person he became. Wholesale collectivization of
agriculture, some 120 million peasants, necessitated levels of
coercion that were extreme even for Russia, but Stalin did not
flinch; the resulting mass starvation and death elicited criticism
inside the party even from those Communists committed to the
eradication of capitalism. By 1934, when the situation had
stabilized and socialism had been built in the countryside too, the
internal praise came for his uncanny success in anticapitalist
terms. But Stalin never forgot and never forgave, with bloody
consequences as he strove to consolidate the state with a brand new
elite. Stalin had revived a great power with a formidable
industrialized military. But the Soviet Union was effectively
alone, with no allies and enemies perceived everywhere. The quest
to find security would bring Soviet Communism into an improbable
pact with Nazi Germany. But that bargain did not work out as
envisioned. The lives of Stalin and Hitler, and the fates of their
respective countries, drew ever closer to collision. Stalin:
Waiting for Hitler: 1929-1941 is, like its predecessor Stalin:
Paradoxes of Power: 1878-1928, nothing less than a history of the
world from Stalin's desk. It is also, like its predecessor, a
landmark achievement in the annals of the biographer's art.
Kotkin's portrait captures the vast structures moving global
events, and the intimate details of decision-making.
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