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Published on: 2004-01-15
Released on: 2003-12-24
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Following his country's victory over Nazi Germany, Joseph Stalin was widely hailed as a great wartime leader and international statesman. Unchallenged on the domestic front, he headed one of the most powerful nations in the world. Yet, in the period from the end of World War II until his death, Stalin remained a man possessed by his fears. In order to reinforce his despotic rule in the face of old age and uncertain health, he habitually humiliated and terrorized members of his inner circle. He had their telephones bugged and even forced his deputy, Viacheslav Molotov, to betray his own spouse as a token of his allegiance. Often dismissed as paranoid and irrational, Stalin's behavior followed a clear political logic, contend Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk. Stalin's consistent and overriding goal after the war was to consolidate the Soviet Union's status as a superpower and, in the face of growing decrepitude, to maintain his own hold as leader of that power. To that end, he fashioned a system of leadership that was at once patrimonial-repressive and quite modern. While maintaining informal relations based on personal loyalty at the apex of the system, in the postwar period Stalin also vested authority in committees, elevated younger specialists, and initiated key institutional innovations with lasting consequences. Close scrutiny of Stalin's relationships with his most intimate colleagues also shows how, in the teeth of periodic persecution, Stalin's deputies cultivated informal norms and mutual understandings which provided the foundations for collective rule after his death. Based on newly released archival documents, including personal correspondence, drafts of Central Committee paperwork, new memoirs, and interviews with former functionaries and the families of Politburo members, this book will appeal to all those interested in Soviet history, political history, and the lives of dictators. Perry Anderson: Imperium. New Left Review 83 September ... New Left Review 83 September-October 2013 Save a PDF file; Send an email; Print article; This issue of the journal is devoted to a two-part study of American foreign ... Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia Joseph Stalin; General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Gulag - Wikipedia Although the term Gulag originally referred to a government agency in English and many other languages the acronym acquired the qualities of a common noun denoting ... Trump For President 2012? Real Jew News God Bless You All & May Christ SAVE America. Trump has some good things to say mostly about jobs and rebuilding America. With Michael Cohen a Jew as his right hand ... the cambridge history of RUSSIA - Cultorweb.com Cambridge Histories Online Cambridge University Press 2008 the cambridge history of RUSSIA The third volume of the Cambridge History of Russia provides an Part 1 Adolf Hitlers Childhood The Greatest Story NEVER Told Part 1 Adolf Hitlers childhood from his birth and early life throughout his WW1 exploits and into his early political career. Explanations why a- and h-bombs do not work - 1. 8 ... And media will not publish the good news. Fast neutrons subatomic particles just fly away at 20.000.000 m/s speed and disintegrate into other subatomic ...
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