Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941

"To my mind, the most significant single scholarly contribution made to date, anywhere, to the history of Soviet power."—George F. Kennan

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 e...