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Scorched earth : Stalin's reign of terror / Jörg Baberowski ; translated by Steven Gilbert, Ivo Komljen, and Samantha Jeanne Taber ; Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Author
Baberowski, Jörg
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Uniform title
Verbrannte Erde.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
Description
x, 500 pages ; 25 cm.
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DK267 .B22513 2016
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Subject(s)
Dictatorship
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Soviet Union
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History
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Communism
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Social aspects
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Soviet Union
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History
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State-sponsored terrorism
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Soviet Union
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History
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Political violence
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Soviet Union
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History
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Power (Social sciences)
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Soviet Union
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History
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Soviet Union
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History
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1925-1953
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Soviet Union
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Politics and government
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1936-1953
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Stalin, Joseph 1878-1953
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Political and social views
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Stalin, Joseph 1878-1953
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Influence
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Related name
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
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Library of Congress genre(s)
History
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Series
Yale-Hoover series on authoritarian regimes
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Summary note
"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"--Publisher description.
Notes
Originally published as Verbrannte Erde : Stalins Herrschaft der Gewalt, by Jörg Baberowski, ©2012 by C.H. Beck Verlag, Munich, Germany.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
Translated from the German.
Contents
What was Stalinism?
Imperial spaces of violence
Pyrrhic victories
Subjugation
Dictatorship of dread
Wars
Stalin's heirs.
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ISBN
9780300136982 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
0300136986 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2015959904
OCLC
926820621
Other standard number
99969737579
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Scorched Earth : Stalin's Reign of Terror / Jörg Baberowski.
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Scorched earth : Stalin's reign of terror / Jörg Baberowski ; translated by Steven Gilbert, Ivo Komljen, and Samantha Jeanne Taber.
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