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: Sebestyen, Victor Название: Lenin the dictator ISBN: 1474601057 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474601054 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 15170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: From acclaimed historian Victor Sebestyen comes a new life of the creator of the world`s first communist state.
Автор: Merridale, Catherine Название: Lenin on the Train ISBN: 0141979941 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141979946 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 11430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: 'The superb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin's trans-European rail journey and how it shook the world' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year'Splendid ... a jewel among histories, taking a single episode from the penultimate year of the Great War, illuminating a continent, a revolution and a series of psychologies in a moment of cataclysm and doing it with wit, judgment and an eye for telling detail' David Aaronovitch, The TimesBy 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe.
In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why not sow further confusion in an increasingly chaotic Russia by arranging for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the most notorious of revolutionary extremists, currently safely bottled up in neutral Switzerland, to go home?Catherine Merridale's Lenin on the Train recreates Lenin's extraordinary journey from harmless exile in Zurich, across a Germany falling to pieces from the war's deprivations, and northwards to the edge of Lapland to his eventual ecstatic reception by the revolutionary crowds at Petrograd's Finland Station. With great skill and insight Merridale weaves the story of the train and its uniquely strange group of passengers with a gripping account of the now half-forgotten liberal Russian revolution and shows how these events intersected. She brilliantly uses a huge range of contemporary eyewitnesses, observing Lenin as he travelled back to a country he had not seen for many years.
Many thought he was a mere 'useful idiot', others thought he would rapidly be imprisoned or killed, others that Lenin had in practice few followers and even less influence. They would all prove to be quite wrong.
Автор: Lenin V.I. Название: State and Revolution ISBN: 1608464989 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781608464982 Издательство: Abbeville Press Рейтинг: Цена: 13290.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Essential reading for generations of revolutionaries, State & Revolution is made newly accessible in this fully annotated edition
Автор: Lenin Vladimir Ilich Название: State and Revolution ISBN: 1614271925 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614271925 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 6910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Lenin Vladimir Ilich, Lenin V. I. Название: The State and Revolution ISBN: 1161477667 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781161477665 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 45310.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Lenin Vladimir Ilich Название: Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism ISBN: 1635617278 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781635617276 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 12230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This 100-Year-Old Book Still Explains Our Endless Wars. As the extraordinary death and suffering of World War I unfolded, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin tried to explain why so many nations agreed to sacrifice so many people in such a brutal way. Expanding on the works of other political and economic theorists, including Karl Marx, Lenin provided an answer: capitalism. As he saw it, WWI was solely about imperialism and colonialism. To maintain their unyielding drive for maximum profit, the major capitalist industries of rich nations--banks and manufacturing--had to seek riches outside of their country's borders. By sending money (capital), instead of goods, to poorer, less developed nations, they could exert their power and control new markets. But what happens when rival empires clash over these colonized lands? Warfare. In Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Lenin extends his scorn to the international socialist movement which -- with the exception of the Russian faction--supported entering the war to fight against a perceived foreign enemy while ignoring domestic marauders. He also exposes the cynicism behind the Wilson doctrine, which posited the world could achieve peace through the continued exploitation of the poor by the rich. Lenin connects the ruling class's increased wealth with the corruption, through bribes, of politicians and the labor leaders who worked to suppress workers' strikes. Now a century in print, Lenin's influential analysis remains highly relevant in comprehending the historical context of the foreign and domestic policy in the United States and other major nations.
This Echo Point Books edition has been enhanced with an index, not found in previous editions.
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Автор: Lenin Vladimir Ilich Название: State and Revolution ISBN: 4655307781 ISBN-13(EAN): 9784655307783 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 18380.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
"State and Revolution" describes the role of the State in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution. It describes the inherent nature of the State as a tool for class oppression, a creation born of one social class's desire to control all other social classes. Whether a dictatorship or a democracy, the State remains in the control of the ruling class. Even in a democratic capitalist republic, the ruling class will never willingly relinquish political power, maintaining it via various strategies. Hence, according to this view, communist revolution is the sole remedy for the abolition of the state.
Автор: Lenin Vladimir Ilich Название: Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism ISBN: 1726312658 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781726312653 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9190.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
