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  Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1929-41 (Paperback) By (author) Robert C. Tucker

  

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  Short Description for Stalin in PowerThe second volume in Tucker's biography of Stalin focuses on the motives and methods used to transform Soviet Russia, a background agricultural nation, into an industrial and military power prepared for war. Tucker has also written "Stalin as Revolutionary" and "The Marx-Engels Reader".
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  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Published: 23 September 1992
  • Format: Paperback 728 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Marxism & Communism | Central Government | European History
  • ISBN 13: 9780393308693 ISBN 10: 0393308693
  • Sales rank: 342,236

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• This book forms the second volume of Tucker's biography of Stalin, the first volume of which was "Stalin as Revolutionary". The author shows that Stalin was a Bolshevik of the radical right whose revolution cast the country deep into its imperial, autocratic past. In 1929 Stalin plunged Soviet Russia into a coercive "revolution from above", a decade-long effort to amass military-industrial power for a new war. He forced 25 million peasant families into state-run collectives and transformed the Communist Party into a servile instrument. In 1939, he concluded the pact with Hitler that enabled him to grasp at Eastern Europe while Hitler made war in the West. Tucker brings a fresh analysis to these events and to the Terror of the 1930s, revealing the motives and methods of what he calls the greatest murder mystery of this century.