Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator [Audiobook] download free by Oleg V. Khlevniuk
- Listen audiobook: Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
- Author: Oleg V. Khlevniuk
- Release date: 2017/1/9
- Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780300219784
- Rating: 9.01 of 10
- Votes: 852
- Review by: Jayceon Legg
- Review rating: 8.76 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/13
- Duration: 5H17M46S in 256 kbps (84.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-30
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WAV, WMA, WMA Lossless, Shorten, MP3, FLAC (compression TAR.BZ2, AZW, RAR, TAR.Z, TAR.XZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 424
- Includes a PDF summary of 49 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 36M52S (9.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were victims of famine directly resulting from Stalin's policies. What drove him toward such ruthlessness? This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin the man and dictator. Without mythologizing Stalin as either benevolent or an evil genius, Khlevniuk resolves numerous controversies about specific events in the dictator's life while assembling many hundreds of previously unknown letters, memos, reports, and diaries into a comprehensive, compelling narrative of a life that altered the course of world history. In brief, revealing prologues to each chapter, Khlevniuk takes his reader into Stalin's favorite dacha, where the innermost circle of Soviet leadership gathered as their vozhd lay dying. Chronological chapters then illuminate major themes: Stalin's childhood, his involvement in the Revolution and the early Bolshevik government under Lenin, his assumption of undivided power and mandate for industrialization and collectivization, the Terror, World War II, and the postwar period. At the book's conclusion, the author presents a cogent warning against nostalgia for the Stalinist era.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Political Leaders & Leadership, Biography: Historical, Political & Military, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, European History
- Download servers: KATCR, 1fichier, MEGA, 4Shared, Google Drive, Torrent. Compressed in TAR.BZ2, AZW, RAR, TAR.Z, TAR.XZ, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 24.15 USD
- Dimensions: 146x227x22.86mm
- Weight: 544g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: United States
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