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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Suny, Ronald Grigor, author.     Subjects     Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.     Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.     Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Suny, Ronald Grigor, author.       by title:      Stalin : passage to ...         MARC Display

Stalin : passage to revolution / Ronald Grigor Suny. by Suny, Ronald Grigor, author. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020] Subjects Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.   Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.   Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Biography. ISBN:  9780691182032 (hardcover) : 0691182035 (paperback) Description:  xviii, 857 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, 25 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "This biography of the young Stalin is more than the story of how a revolutionary was made: it is the first serious investigation, using the full range of Russian and Georgian archives, to explain Stalin's evolution from a romantic and idealistic youth into a hardened political operative. Suny takes seriously the first half of Stalin's life: his intellectual development, his views on issue of nationalities and nationalism, and his role in the Social Democratic debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book narrates an almost tragic downfall; we see Stalin transform from a poor provincial seminarian, who wrote romantic nationalist poetry, into a fearsome and brutal ruler. Many biographers of Stalin turn to shallow psychological analysis in seeking to explain his embrace of revolution, focusing on the beatings he suffered at the hands of his father or his hero-worship of Lenins, or sensationalizing Stalin's involvement in violent activity. Suny seeks to show Stalin in the complex context of the oppressive tsarist police-state in which he lived and debates and party politics that animated the revolutionary circles in which he moved. Though working from fragmentary evidence from disparate sources, Suny is able to place Stalin in his intellectual and political context and reveal, not only a different analysis of the man's psychological and intellectual transformation, but a revisionist history of the revolutionary movements themselves before 1917"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 947.084209 Stalin Su Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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