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Scorched Earth: Stalin´s Reign of Terror

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Description for Scorched Earth: Stalin´s Reign of Terror Hardback. Translator(s): Gilbert, Steven; Komljen, Ivo; Taber, Samantha Jeanne. Series: The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
The Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes
Condition
New
Weight
858g
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300136982
SKU
V9780300136982
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About Jörg Baberowski
Jörg Baberowski is an author and professor of Eastern European history. He teaches at Humboldt University in Berlin, where he lives.

Reviews for Scorched Earth: Stalin´s Reign of Terror
“How often does an historian summon the courage to substantially revise his own work? In Scorched Earth, Jörg Baberowski again shows himself to be an elegant stylist and provocative thinker focused on the conundrum of mass violence. He argues that Stalin lusted for power, eagerly unleashed mass violence, indeed spoke through violence; that a state of emergency is a paradise ... Read more

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