Stalin : a biography in facts

Stalin : a biography in facts /

"'If you can imagine a personality who in every respect is the opposite of what the anti-Stalinists are telling us everywhere, then you get a rough idea of this man.' - US Amb. J.E. Davies. This book, mainly first-hand accounts from those who knew and worked with Stalin, and his own w...

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Main Author: Schnehen, Gerhard, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Algora Publishing, 2020
Subjects:
Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953.
Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953 > Friends and associates.
Soviet Union > History > 1917-1936.
Soviet Union > History > 1925-1953.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Childhood and youth
  • Stalin's early revolutionary activities
  • Stalin and the first Russian Revolution
  • The era of Stolypin reaction
  • The Turukhansk exile
  • Stalin's activities in Petrograd efore the October Revolution
  • The time immediately after the October Uprising
  • Stalin's role in the civil war
  • The transition to peaceful reconstruction
  • Stalin and the foundation of the USSR
  • Lenin's testament
  • Trotsky's plot to oust Stalin
  • Lenin's death
  • Stalin's fight against Trotskyism
  • The origins of socialist industrialization
  • The first five-year plan
  • The collectivization of agriculture
  • Soviet cultural revolution
  • The state of the religions
  • A new Soviet public health system
  • The struggle to raise productivity of labor
  • Stalin against bureaucracy
  • The Constitution of 1936
  • Stalin : the internationalist, or : the Soviet Union and the Spanish Civil War
  • The Moscow trials
  • Yezhovshina
  • The struggle for peace and security
  • The war against Nazi Germany begins
  • The battle for Moscow
  • Where is the second front?
  • Stalingrad
  • On the road to liberation
  • Why the Soviet Union won the war
  • Rebuilding the Soviet Union
  • The origins of the Cold War
  • Stalin's peace policy
  • The foundation of Cominform
  • Stalin as a Marxist linguist
  • The first attempt at Perestroyka
  • Stalin's economic problems of socialism in the USSR
  • The 19th Party Congress of the CPSU and the first meeting of the Central Committee
  • The doctors' plot
  • The murder of Stalin
  • Reactions to Stalin's death.

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