Stalin: Revolutionary in an Era of War

by Kevin McDermott

Overview

Stalin's massive impact on Soviet history is often explained in terms of his inherent evil, personality defects, and power lust. This volume argues that Stalin's thoughts and actions are best contextualized in the inter-relationship between war and revolution in the first half of the twentieth century. Kevin McDermott incorporates recently declassified materials from the former Soviet Party archives and provides a critical review of western and Russian historiography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333711224
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/01/2006
Series:	European History in Perspective , #70
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

KEVIN MCDERMOTT is Senior Lecturer in Political History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is the author of The Czech Red Unions, 1918-1929, co-author of The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin and co-editor of Stalin's Terror: High Politics and Mass Repression in the Soviet Union.
KEVIN MCDERMOTT is Senior Lecturer in Political History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is the author of The Czech Red Unions, 1918-1929, co-author of The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin and co-editor of Stalin's Terror: High Politics and Mass Repression in the Soviet Union.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations and Glossary of Terms
Introduction
Revolutionary
Oligarch
Moderniser
Dictator
Warlord
Statesman
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

One of the most helpful and up-to-date aids to the study of the Stalin years. Students will be indebted to the author for his pithy, judicious and balanced presentation of current debates.' - Christopher Read, University of Warwick, UK

Editorial Reviews

"McDermott offers us a well-written and judicious consideration of the most prominent historical debates about the personality of Stalin, his contributions to the demise of NEP and the evolution of the Five-Year Plans, his role in the elaboration of Terror, his statesmanship during World War II, and the development of Soviet foreign policies during the Cold War." -Choi Chatterjee, California State University, Los Angeles

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