Stalin, a political biography Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Please try again. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Other reviewers object to Deutscher going easy on Stalin, but it should be noted that this book was first published in 1949. Exhaustive analysis of the life and career of the Soviet Union's most brutal dictator, Stalin;: A political biography, by I. Deutscher. Still, I enjoy reading a point of view that is not the one that is most prevalent in the west. Press in London, . Buy Stalin: A Political Biography New edition by Deutscher, Isaac (ISBN: 9780140135046) from Amazon's Book Store. A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world The product of a decade of intrepid research, Stalin is a landmark achievement. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Please try again. In 1907 Stalin took part in the expropriation of the bank of Tiflis. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. There's a problem loading this menu right now. (page 380), This book must be seen in its proper context, Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2014. Year of publication: 1949. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. But also, I know of few books that can rival Deutscher's Stalin in terms of the historical scope of the subject, including such major events in human history, the Great War and the collapse of the empires, the Russian Revolution, the world depressions, the rise of European fascism and Nazi Germany, the Second Great War, the transformation of the Soviet Union from an agrarian society into an industrial one, and the legacy of both Hitler and Stalin on the world. New York. It was a long time ago that I read Deutscher's biography, and much has come to light since then, as it was before the collapse of the Soviet Union (yes I am revealing my age a little). This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. A brilliant, and although based on twenty years of study and research into Soviet affairs of which Stalin is an inseparable part, this is still a very absorbing portrait of one of the great men of our time. If you think a 600+ page biography of Stalin would be boring, this is not. A stunning piece of history, as important as his Trotsky trilogy. Genre/Form: Biographies: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Deutscher, Isaac, 1907-1967. Stalin’s biography was long obscured by a mendacious Soviet-propagated “legend” exaggerating his prowess as a heroic Bolshevik boy-conspirator and faithful follower of Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union. I bought this book to help write my history essay at school, and I was very pleased. If you think a 600+ page biography of Stalin would be boring, this is not. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? Hitler was the leader of a sterile counterrevolution, while Stalin has been the leader and the exploiter of a tragic, self-contradictory but creative revolution. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. For me, this biography still stands out as a masterpiece of writing, stylistically alone it is very much worth reading. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. I obtained this book in about 1972 while I was an undergraduate. The 13-digit and 10-digit formats both work. Unable to add item to List. Kessinger Publishing, LLC (March 1, 2007), Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2017, Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2006. Despite, this Trotskite inclination, I have continued to use this book has remained a major reference book for events in Stalin's life. The students staged a strike, demanding that they be taught Georgian literature – this was a Georgian challenge to the Russian authorities – and that several unpopular tutors be removed from the seminary. Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. I have a lot of reading left to do but interesting book, so far. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. So Deutscher's book is a very interesting example of how pro-Communist historians were looking at Stalin mid-century. Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2018, Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2016. Stalin was still alive, and just a few years earlier he had motivated his nation to crush the Nazi war machine. I have not read many biographies of Stalin, especially those written by his sycophants, but I doubt that I would ever read one as carefully written as this one by Deutscher. A landmark achievement, Stalin paints an unforgettable portrait of a driven young man who abandoned his religious faith to become a skilled political operative and a single-minded and ruthless rebel. History at its most accessible, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 9, 2019, Great book, too bad it's out of general circulation, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2017. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. One of these items ships sooner than the other. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Personally, I believe that objectivism is a chimera as much as global peace or utopianism is a chimera. Publisher: Oxford Univ. Common terms and phrases. Deutscher published his first major work, Stalin, A Political Biography in 1949. Here, Deutscher simply lists the names of a few of the old guard who were annihilated and sparsely sums the whole episode thus: "It is not necessary to assume that he acted from sheer cruelty or lust for power. It is also very possible that Deutscher wrote with a half-conscious fear that he might get an ice axe in the brain if he was too negative toward Stalin. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. It does an excellent job explaining the various debates and interpretations of Marxism-Leninism that swirled around the leadership of the Soviet Union from pre-revolutionary days to the 1950's. If you think a 600+ page biography of Stalin would be boring, this is not. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. After the war, both relations between the Allies and Stalin soured due to their political differences. Oxford University Press; 2nd edition (December 31, 1967), Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2018. It is very hard, in any culture, to write a full treatment of a living figure who is still controlling the propaganda about himself. Obviously because the republication of Stalin’s articles or letters for that period could only damage his political biography. Find books like Stalin: A Political Biography from the world’s largest community of readers. The publishers of this biography say, “It is not pro-Stalin; it is not pro-Communist. Like Cromwell, Robespierre, and Napoleon he started as the servant of an insurgent people and made himself its master. The book is a chronological account of Stalin's life starting from his birth to his serf parents, through his revolutionary youth, his rise to the higher ranks of the Soviet leadership, his conniving power grab from the hands of Trotsky and other contemporaries, his draconian, dictatorial governance, his impact on WW-2, and his last days of governance primarily influened by intimidation and inspired by his own fears. Click to read more about Stalin: A Political Biography by Isaac Deutscher. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Stalin: A Political Biography. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jughashvili, 18 December [O.S. This book was written by Isaac Deutscher who has written the major three volume biography of Leon Trotsky. Please try again. What is most striking about this biography is the extent the author goes to create as objective an analysis of Stalin's life and politics as possible. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. This book is very well written. Deutscher's perception and analysis of the forces at play within and without the socialist movement are as relevant today as ever. When I first obtained this book, I read it straight through. He sent thousands to their deaths and tens of hundreds of thousands into prisons and concentration camps." Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. Author: I Deutscher. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Interestingly, Stalin's allies in these political games do not consider him to be worth any weight, and assume that after their political victory, power would come naturally to them, and Stalin could be their crony. Stalin set up communist states in the east and the allies founded an alliance called NATO against the spread of communism and Stalin's regime in the Soviet Union in 1949. The author has devoted many years to studying the relevant material, including documents hitherto unused by biographers of the Communist dictator. Stalin, a Political Biography Isaac Deutscher Snippet view - 1949. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Learn more about the program. 1. Title: Stalin: A Political Biography. (page 378) Absolutely no description of any thought process by Stalin as to who would die is given; no hint of the stories of Stalin personally going over lists of names to mark the condemned is offered. Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2015. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. He may be given the dubious credit of the sincere conviction that what he did saved the interests of the revolution and that he alone interpreted those interests aright." Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Khrushchev would not denounce Stalin until 1956. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Stalin: A Political Biography (Galaxy Books). Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Stalin: A Political Biography (Galaxy Books), Origins of the Great Purges (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies), Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit. Very well-written and readable, it contains a number of gems, such as discussions of the complicated relationship between Stalin and Lenin and its shocking conclusion between Lenin's second stroke and his death, and the effect of Alexander Blok's poem "The Scythians" on the pre-revolution Russian intelligentia. Exhaustive analysis of the life and career of the Soviet Union's most brutal dictator. But revelations -- or even details -- concerning other critical events such as the purges of the mid-Thirties seem entirely lacking. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Death. Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2001, I found the book at the same time gripping and disappointing. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 12, 2013. This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. Stalin: A Political Biography by Isaac Deutscher Oxford University Press, 1949, 600 pp., $5. Something went wrong. Unable to add item to List. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. If you ever find a copy, do yourself a favor of readin it. It was one of the most fascinating books I have ever read, even though the author is not blameless for having an unrealistic optimism about his subject. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Stephen Kotkin offers a biography that, at long last, is equal to this shrewd, sociopathic, charismatic dictator in … I found this book refreshing, actually, now that it is impossible to research Stalin without finding lurid documentaries entitled Butchers of the Twentieth Century, Man of Steel Man of Blood, and other extremes. ^ Isaac Deutscher, Stalin - a Political Biography, 2nd edition, 1961, Swedish ISBN 91-550-2469-6, pp 184-233 It does an excellent job explaining the various debates and interpretations of Marxism-Leninism that swirled around the leadership of the Soviet Union from pre-revolutionary days to the 1950's. Edition Notes Bibliography: p. [571]-575. On March 1, 1953, Joseph Stalin died from a brain hemorrhage. Please try again. Likewise, the deaths and ruined families of these thousands are passed over and we are given this in their stead: "The real mass purges were carried out without the thunder and lightning of publicity, without confession of the victims, and often without any trial whatsoever. Stalin, a political biography by Deutscher, Isaac, unknown edition, Classifications Dewey Decimal Class 923.247 Library of Congress DK268.S8 D48 1949 Please try your request again later. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Stalinism is used to describe the period during which Joseph Stalin was leader of the Soviet Union while serving as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to his death on 5 March 1953. 3. Deutscher has some visible inclination toward the Trotskite political position which is reflected in this biography. Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938, Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics). It does an excellent job explaining the various debates and interpretations of Marxism-Leninism that swirled around the leadership of the Soviet Union from pre-revolutionary days to the 1950's. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. And it would take another full generation before detailed news of the gulags emerged. Stalin. Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2015. Use the Amazon App to scan ISBNs and compare prices. Very useful, especially if you are taking History at school. A short biography of Joseph Stalin whose rise to power began during the October Revolution in 1917, when the Bolsheviks overthrew the tsar and created a Communist society. Stalin, a political biography. This edition published in 1949 by Oxford Univ. As there is little to record about Stalin that is not political, this brilliant and fascinating volume is in effect a full-fledged "life and times." About Stalin. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Please try again. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2019, Did this for A level years ago and wanted to revisit . It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. He had been an ally of both America and Britain, and there was no internal evidence (within the Soviet Union) of his many excesses. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. There's a problem loading this menu right now. It contains a full confidential report on a political revolt of the students of the seminary which took place just before Stalin’s entry. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers Inspire a love of reading with Amazon Book Box for Kids. Great book, too bad it's out of general circulation. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The book is a chronological account of Stalin's life starting from his birth to his serf parents, through his revolutionary youth, his rise to the higher ranks of the Soviet leadership, his conniving power grab from the hands of Trotsky and other contemporaries, his draconian, dictatorial governance, his impact on WW-2, and his last days of governance primarily influened by intimidation and inspired by his own fears. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime. There is no other explanation of the stubborn forgetfulness of the “chief’s” past. This book is very well written. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. New York, Oxford University Press, 1949 (OCoLC)678207921 EMBED. Deutscher was still a committed Trotskyist, but in the book he gave Stalin what he saw as his due for building a form of socialism in the Soviet Union, even if it was, in Deutscher's view, a perversion of the vision of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Why? If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you grow your business. Please try again. 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