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  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.
  
 
Editorial Reviews
  Review
  “No one in the world knows the inner workings of Soviet power in
Stalin’s time better than Oleg Khlevniuk. Beautifully and artfully composed, deeply moral, and supremely
readable, Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator will become the benchmark against which all future biographies of Stalin
will be measured. A masterpiece.”—Jan Plamper, author of The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of
Power
  (Jan Plamper)
  
  “Oleg Khlevniuk is incontestably the best Russian student of Soviet
history. In this biography, he uses his experience and talents to give us an innovative and convincing portrait of the
Soviet “micromanaging” despot. The chapters dealing with the Terror, war, victory and the tragic postwar
years break new ground. Stalin’s political and private life, his relationships with his immediate circle, his
family and the “Soviet people,” his intellectual capacities and his way of leading the country, as well as
his cruelty and the system of power he built, come vividly to life, and one leaves the book with a much more profound
understanding of some of Europe’s darkest decades.”—Andrea Graziosi, author of the Histoire de
l'URSS
  (Andrea Graziosi)
  
  "Oleg Khlevniuk, master of the Russian archives, provides a fresh and
acute analysis of Stalin the destroyer to confound revisionists who portray him as a state builder and
modernizer."—Alfred J. Rieber, author of Stalin and the Struggle for Eurasia
  (Alfred J. Rieber)
  
  "Khlevniuk is one of the most knowledgeable historians of Stalin and his era. This excellent biography of Stalin
represents the current state
  of scholarship, and should be read widely."—Hiroaki Kuromiya, author of
Stalin: Profiles in Power
  (Hiroaki Kuromiya)
  
   "A superb account by the eminent scholar who
pioneered the opening of the Soviet archives. Oleg Khlevniuk summarizes a lifetime of research, eschewing
unsubstantiated anecdotes and tales and sticking to the documentary record, to produce an authoritative narrative of
Stalin’s life and times."—Paul Gregory, Hoover Institution
  (Paul Gregory)
  
 
"Enthralling, brilliant, and groundbreaking, this book confirms Khlevniuk as probably the greatest living expert on
Stalin. The culmination of his revelatory archivally-researched works that were the first to understand Stalin as a
politician, the book reveals him as a fanatical Marxist and Russian statesman of exceptional but flawed complexity
formed above all by his political life and the idiosyncratic realities of Soviet power. Essential reading."—Simon
Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar
  (Simon Sebag Montefiore)
  
  "Oleg
Khlevniuk makes the modest claim that this is a biography of Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union for thirty years.
In fact, Khlevniuk has given us not just a biography of Stalin, but a history of the ruling system that Stalin created,
and he does so in six concise chapters. Khlevniuk writes with clarity and insight, following the evolution of Stalin
from young revolutionary, to undisputed dictator, and finally to ruthless despot, alone and dying as his subordinates
cower and hope for the end. The translation by Nora Favorov is excellent, and makes the book easily accessible to
English reading audiences. Khlevniuk's biography of Stalin is a deft achievement."—David Shearer, author of
Policing Stalin’s Socialism: Social Order and Mass Repression in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953
  (David
Shearer)
  
  “Oleg Khlevniuk’s biography adds greatly to our understanding of Stalin by making
extensive and careful use of newly available archives to throw new light on Stalin’s rule. His clear-eyed
analysis draws a sharp distinction between what we know from serious research and what we should discard as mere
speculation. The result is an unvarnished account that warns against nostalgia for Stalin’s
rule.”—David Holloway, author of Stalin and the Bomb
  (David Holloway)
  
  "In this
excellent book, Oleg Khlevniuk answers questions that have engaged historians, puzzled political scientists, and
fascinated casual observers for decades. How did Stalin rise from a minor revolutionary to one of the most powerful men
in history? How did he manage to first defeat contenders within the Soviet leadership, then to subordinate the Communist
Party and the Red Army to his personal authority, to eventually build an empire whose specter haunts Eastern Europe to
the present day? And crucially, why didn’t anyone stop him before it was too late?”—Milan Svolik,
author of The Politics of Authoritarian Rule
  (Milan Svolik)
  
  “Khlevniuk manages to take us
into the inner sanctum of the dictator's power and show how he ruled his subordinates—indeed the whole
country—through the knout and the ginger cookie, the Russian version of carrot and stick. A masterly portrait
drawn by a master historian.”—Ronald Grigor Suny, author of The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and
the Successor States
  (Ronald Grigor Suny)
  
  ‘…there could hardly be a more opportune
moment for the publication of this authoritative, fluently written, concise life, the pinnacle of current scholarship on
its subject.’—Charlotte Hobson, the Spectator.
   
  (Charlotte Hobson Spectator 2015-05-23)
  
  “A very digestible biography, yet one packed with revelations. . . . If you read just one biography
this year, make it this one.”—Paul E. Richardson, Russian Life magazine
  (Paul E. Richardson Russian
Life magazine)
  From the Author
  Why do we need another biography of Stalin?
  
  Rarely have so
many new sources of information become available within a short period as with the opening of the Stalin-era Soviet
archives. I saw it as my task to weave the most salient new information into a narrative that rests entirely on what we
know for certain about Stalin and his time.
   
  Was Stalin necessary?
  
  Decades ago the British
historian Alec Nove asked, "Was Stalin really necessary?" Everyone knows what a brutal murderer Stalin was, but many
believe that "the trains ran on time." The evidence, however, points to catastrophic mismanagement. Nothing in Stalin's
background qualified him to take dictatorial control of a vast country, reorganize its agriculture, or serve as its
chief military strategist. To the end, he remained willfully blind to the fact that he had built an unworkable
system.
   
  You have been among the first to explore Stalin's personal archive. What discovery from this
collection most surprised you? 
  
  It is interesting that Stalin kept the coerced confessions of the Old
Bolsheviks whom he condemned to death. He, of course, knew they were innocent, but for some reason he needed these
confessions. Maybe he felt they would justify his actions to posterity?
   
  Beside the lost lives, what, for
you, is the greatest tragedy of the Stalinist legacy?
  
  I am frightened that so many of our fellow Russians
proclaim the Stalinist period to represent the pinnacle of the country's achievement and that we should use Stalinist
methods to return Russia to glory. They refuse to see the horrible price paid. Stalin's admirers regard human life as
expendable—the needs of the state come first—and are eager to hunt down twenty-first century "enemies."
This totalitarian mindset is Stalin's most terrifying legacy.
  
  Product Details 
  
  Hardcover:
408 pages
  Publisher: Yale University Press; First Edition edition (May 19, 2015)
  Language: English
 
ISBN-10: 0300163886
  ISBN-13: 978-0300163889
    						

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