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Автор: Stephen Kotkin Название: Stalin, Vol. I ISBN: 0141027940 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141027944 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 16710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He was about to begin uprooting and collectivization of agriculture and industry across the entire Soviet Union. This book offers an explanation yet of Stalin`s power.
Автор: Kotkin, Stephen Название: Stalin, Vol. II ISBN: 0141027959 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141027951 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 16710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard'The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of our age ... The War and Peace of history: a book you fear you will never finish, but just cannot put down' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Well before 1929, Stalin had achieved dictatorial power over the Soviet empire, but now he decided that the largest peasant economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity, whatever it took. What it took, and what Stalin managed to force through, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways.
Rather than a tale of a deformed or paranoid personality creating a political system, this is a story of a political system shaping a personality. Building and running a dictatorship, with power of life or death over hundreds of millions, in conditions of capitalist self-encirclement, made Stalin the person he became. Wholesale collectivization of agriculture, some 120 million peasants, necessitated levels of coercion that were extreme even for Russia, but Stalin did not flinch; the resulting mass starvation and death elicited criticism inside the party even from those Communists committed to the eradication of capitalism.
By 1934, when the situation had stabilized and socialism had been built in the countryside too, the internal praise came for his uncanny success in anticapitalist terms. But Stalin never forgot and never forgave, with bloody consequences as he strove to consolidate the state with a brand new elite. Stalin had revived a great power with a formidable industrialized military.
But the Soviet Union was effectively alone, with no allies and enemies perceived everywhere. The quest to find security would bring Soviet Communism into an improbable pact with Nazi Germany. But that bargain did not work out as envisioned.
The lives of Stalin and Hitler, and the fates of their respective countries, drew ever closer to collision. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler: 1929-1941 is, like its predecessor Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878-1928, nothing less than a history of the world from Stalin's desk. It is also, like its predecessor, a landmark achievement in the annals of the biographer's art.
Kotkin's portrait captures the vast structures moving global events, and the intimate details of decision-making.
Автор: Kotkin Stephen Название: Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 ISBN: 0143127861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143127864 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 16550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: El paquete Courseware consiste de dos publicaciones , VeriSM - Fundamentos Courseware y Fundamentos guia de estudio.Este material de entrenamiento cubre el plan de estudios para la calificacion VeriSM fundamentos. El entrenamiento puede ser entregado durante dos dias. Este Courseware esta acreditado para preparar al estudiante para la certificacion VeriSM. VeriSM Fundamentos consiste de dos partes: VeriSM Essentials y VeriSM Plus, cada uno cubriendo un dia de entrenamiento.Los estudiantes que ya tienen un certificado en Gestion de Servicios (TI) pueden beneficiarse del conocimiento que ya tienen. Son el publico objetivo para el entrenamiento VeriSM Plus unicamente. Cuando aprueben el examen VeriSM Plus, recibiran el certificado de VeriSM fundamentos. Proveedores de entrenamiento que quieran ofrecer un dia de capacitacion sobre principios de gestion de servicios podrian decidir ofrecer unicamente el entrenamiento de VeriSM Essentials. Los estudiantes que aprueben el examen VeriSM Essentials, recibiran el certificado de VeriSM Essentials. Si posteriormente ellos aprueban el examen VeriSM plus, recibiran automaticamente el certificado VeriSM Fundamentos.El courseware cubre los siguientes temas:¢ La organizacion del servicio (Essentials)¢ Cultura del servicio (Essentials)¢ Personas y cultura organizacional (Essentials)¢ El modelo VeriSM (Ambas)¢ Practicas progresivas (Plus)¢ Tecnologias innovadoras (Plus)VeriSM es un enfoque holistico y orientado a la empresa, que le ayuda a comprender el creciente panorama de las mejores practicas y como integrarlas para ofrecer valor al consumidor.Esto es una evolucion en el pensamiento de la Gestion de Servicios y ofrece un enfoque actualizado, incluyendo las ultimas practicas y desarrollos tecnologicos, para ayudar a las organizaciones a transformar su negocio en la nueva realidad de la era digital.VeriSM es un enfoque de Gestion de Servicios que esta Dirigido por el valor, Evolutivo, Responsivo (Adaptado) e Integrado VeriSM es una marca registrada y propiedad del IFDC, la Fundacion Internacional de Habilidades Digitales
Автор: Kotkin Stephen Название: Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment ISBN: 0812966791 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812966794 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 10420.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this crash. In a crisp, concise, unsentimental narrative, they employ three case studies East Germany, Romania, and Poland to illuminate what led Communist regimes to surrender, or to be swept away in political bank runs. This is less a story of dissidents, so-called civil society, than of the bankruptcy of a ruling class communism s establishment, or uncivil society. The Communists borrowed from the West like drunken sailors to buy mass consumer goods, then were unable to pay back the hard-currency debts and so borrowed even more. In Eastern Europe, communism came to resemble a Ponzi scheme, one whose implosion carries enduring lessons. From East Germany s pseudotechnocracy to Romania s megalomaniacal dystopia, from Communist Poland s cult of Mary to the Kremlin s surprise restraint, Kotkin and Gross pull back the curtain on the fraud and decadence that cashiered the would-be alternative to the market and democracy, an outcome that opened up to a deeper global integration that has proved destabilizing.
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Автор: Kotkin Stephen Название: Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 ISBN: 1594203806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781594203800 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 24520.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history When we left Stalin at the end of Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878-1928, it was 1928, and he had finally climbed the mountaintop and achieved dictatorial power of the Soviet empire. The vastest peasant economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity, whatever it took. What it took, or what Stalin believed it took, was the most relentless campaign of shock industrialization the world has ever seen. This is the story of the five year plans, the new factory towns, and the integration of an entire system of penal labor into the larger economy. With the Great Depression throwing global capital into crisis, the Soviet Union's New Man looked like nothing so much as the man of the future. As the shadows of the 30's deepen, Stalin's drive to militarize Soviet society takes on increasing urgency, and the ambition of Nazi Germany becomes the predominant geopolitical reality he faces when Hitler claims that communism is a global "Judeo-Bolshevik" conspiracy to bring the Slavic race to power. But just because they're out to get you doesn't mean you're not paranoid. Stalin's paranoia is increasingly one of the most horrible facts of life for his entire country. Stalin's obsessions drive him to violently purge almost a million people, including military leadership, diplomatic corps and intelligence apparatus, to say nothing of a generation of artistic talent. And then came the pact that shocked the world, and demoralized leftists everywhere: Stalin's pact with Hitler in 1939, the carve-up of Poland, and Stalin's utter inability to see Hitler's build-up to the invasion of the USSR. Yet for all that, in just 12 years of total power, Stalin has taken this country from a peasant economy to a formidable modern war machine that rivaled anything else in the world. When the invasion came, Stalin wasn't ready, but his country would prove to be prepared. That is a dimension of the Stalin story that has never adequately been reckoned with before, and it looms large here. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler: 1929-1941 is, like its predecessor, nothing less than a history of the world from Stalin's desk. It is also, like its predecessor, a landmark achievement in the annals of its field, and in the biographer's art.
Автор: Kotkin, Stephen Название: Stalin, Vol. II ISBN: 0713999454 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780713999457 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 21560.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Building and running a dictatorship, with power of life or death over hundreds of millions, in conditions of capitalist self-encirclement, made Stalin the person he became. This is the story of a political system shaping a personality.
Автор: Kotkin Stephen Название: Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 ISBN: 0143132156 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143132158 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 18390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world's largest peasant economy into "socialist modernity," otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost. What it cost, and what Stalin ruthlessly enacted, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways. Building and running a dictatorship, with life and death power over hundreds of millions, made Stalin into the uncanny figure he became. Stephen Kotkin's Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 is the story of how a political system forged an unparalleled personality and vice versa. The wholesale collectivization of some 120 million peasants necessitated levels of coercion that were extreme even for Russia, and the resulting mass starvation elicited criticism inside the party even from those Communists committed to the eradication of capitalism. But Stalin did not flinch. By 1934, when the Soviet Union had stabilized and socialism had been implanted in the countryside, praise for his stunning anti-capitalist success came from all quarters. Stalin, however, never forgave and never forgot, with shocking consequences as he strove to consolidate the state with a brand new elite of young strivers like himself. Stalin's obsessions drove him to execute nearly a million people, including the military leadership, diplomatic and intelligence officials, and innumerable leading lights in culture. While Stalin revived a great power, building a formidable industrialized military, the Soviet Union was effectively alone and surrounded by perceived enemies. The quest for security would bring Soviet Communism to a shocking and improbable pact with Nazi Germany. But that bargain would not unfold as envisioned. The lives of Stalin and Hitler, and the fates of their respective dictatorships, drew ever closer to collision, as the world hung in the balance. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 is a history of the world during the build-up to its most fateful hour, from the vantage point of Stalin's seat of power. It is a landmark achievement in the annals of historical scholarship, and in the art of biography.
