Stalin: The Man and His EraPerestroika and glasnost have unleashed unprecedented criticism of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, and the terrible legacy of his regime has been acknowledged by Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
1 A PEASANT FROM THE PROVINCE OF TIFLIS | 16 |
AMONG THE BOLSHEVIKS | 47 |
3 THE ASCENT AND THE ORDEAL | 84 |
4 ON THE CREST OF THE WAVE | 114 |
5 THE TASTE OF POWER | 158 |
6 IN LENINS SHADOW | 192 |
AT THE TOPALONE | 234 |
8 THE WAR AGAINST THE NATION | 289 |
Common terms and phrases
alleged allies Alliluyeva already American arrested attack Baku became become believed Beria Bolsheviks British Bukharin capitalist Caucasus Central Committee China Chinese Churchill collectivization Comintern command Commissar Communist Party Comrade Stalin danger death defeat democratic dictator diplomatic Djugashvili economic enemy exile fact fear fighting forces foreign front Georgian German Hitler Ibid industrial Kaganovich Kamenev Khrushchev Kirov Koba kolkhoz Krasin Kremlin kulak leaders Lenin Leningrad March Marshal Marxist Mensheviks military million Minister Molotov Moscow never NKVD October official Okhrana organization Orjonikidze Party Congress peasant Petrograd Plan Poland Polish Politburo political Pravda purge reason Red Army regime repression Revolution revolutionary Roosevelt Russian Rykov Secretary socialism socialist Soviet Union speech struggle sure Svetlana Alliluyeva terror Tiflis tion trial troops Trotsky Trotsky and Zinoviev Trotsky's Trotskyites Tsarist turn Ukraine victory Voroshilov Western workers Yagoda Yezhov Zhdanov Zhukov Zinoviev