TY  - GEN
T1  - Scorched earth : Stalin's reign of terror
T2  - Yale-Hoover series on authoritarian regimes.
A1  - Baberowski, Jörg
A2  - Taber, Samantha Jeanne
A2  - Gilbert, Steven (Translator)
A2  - Komljen, Ivo
LA  - English
LA  - German
PP  - Cumberland
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2016
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn961437622
AB  - German scholar Jörg Baberowski is one of the world's leading experts on the Stalin era, but his work has seldom been translated into English. This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad violence with which Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts Stalinism as a cruel and deliberate attack on Russian society, driven by "totalitarian ambitions" and the goal of modernizing and rationalizing a backward people. Baberowski takes a twofold approach, emphasizing Stalin's personal role and responsibility as well as the continuity he sees in Communist aims and ideology since 1917. Unlike recent apologist accounts that focus on the challenges of modernization or on the operational complexities of managing the Soviet state, this hard-hitting analysis unequivocally locates the origins of the terror in the culture of violence and the techniques of power. Detailed, well-documented, and including many new details on the workings of the Stalinist state, this powerful work encompasses the dictator's brutal reign from his achievement of total power in 1929 to his death in 1953.--
OP  - 500
CN  - DK267 .B33 2016eb
SN  - 9780300220575
SN  - 030022057X
SN  - 9780300136982
SN  - 0300136986
KW  - Stalin, Joseph, : 1878-1953.
KW  - Stalin, Joseph, : 1878-1953
KW  - Soviet Union : Politics and government : 1917-1936.
KW  - Soviet Union : Politics and government : 1936-1953.
KW  - Totalitarianism : History : 20th century.
KW  - Dictatorship : Soviet Union.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - URSS : Politique et gouvernement : 1917-1936.
KW  - URSS : Politique et gouvernement : 1936-1953.
KW  - Totalitarisme : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Dictature : URSS.
KW  - Livres numériques.
KW  - e-books.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Eastern.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Former Soviet Republics.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
KW  - Dictatorship
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Totalitarianism
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -