Stalin: The Murderous Career of the Red Tsar

by Nigel Cawthorne

Overview

'Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.'
Joseph Stalin

Worshipped by the Russians as a great leader, Stalin was one of modern history's greatest tyrants, rivalling Hitler, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot. But he probably had more blood on his hands than any of them.

Born Josef Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia in 1879, Stalin studied to be a priest while secretly reading the works of Karl Marx. Politics soon became his religion and, under his ruthless rule, up to 60 million people perished.

Peasants who resisted Stalin's policy of collectivisation were denounced as Kulaks, arrested and shot, exiled or worked to death in his ever-expanding network of concentration camps, the Gulag. Nobody was safe, not even his friends, his family or his political allies. This is the story of a man who never let up for a second in his pursuit of absolute power.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848589513
Publisher:	Arcturus Publishing
Publication date:	07/24/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	862,091
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Nigel Cawthorne studied at University College, London, where he gained an Honours degree in Physics, before turning to writing as a career. He has been a writer and editor for over 25 years, the last 21 freelance. He has written, contributed to and edited more than sixty books, including Fighting Them On The Beaches: D-Day, 6 June 1944, The Battle of Britain, Vietnam: A War Lost and Won, Stalin, and The Story of the SS. His work has also appeared in over a hundred and fifty newspapers, magazines and partworks on both sides of the Atlantic - from the Sun to the Financial Times, and includes contributions to Nam, Eyewitness Nam and The Falklands War. Nigel also visited Vietnam with the legendary Tim Page, where he researched the material for Nam, Eyewitness Nam, and The Bamboo Cage. He is also the creator of websites on the Battle of Hastings, and Pearl Harbor.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Chapter One The Tyrant is Dead 15

Chapter Two Koba the Patricide 49

Chapter Three The Saboteur 71

Chapter Four The Gangster 97

Chapter Five The Revolutionary 149

Chapter Six Seizing Power 187

Chapter Seven The Growth of the Gulag 213

Chapter Eight The Terror 239

Chapter Nine The Great Patriotic War 271

Chapter Ten The Iron Curtain 309

Chapter Eleven Stalin's Criminal Legacy 343

Timeline 382