Rahim Tabet | Oktober 29, 2014 |
Biography
Stalin was not crazy, he was a believer. That is the main message of the new biography of Stephen Kotkin, the first of which has just been published. Stalin was not the cynical, illiterate power-mad Trotsky made after his exile from him. In Stalin. Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 presents Kotkin Georgian youth as an inquisitive creature that at the age of sixteen stood a better chance at the seminary in Tiflis, but because of his radical ideas into trouble. In the first year of his priestly education he got in touch with Caucasian communists and he exchanged the belief in eternal life for the dictatorship of the proletariat. The glimmer of dawn, when, during the February Revolution of 1917 the Tsarist empire fell, followed by the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks to power hielp.Stalin arrest
Young regime sent him out to Tsaritsyn, to put things in order in the grain supply to St. Petersburg and Moscow. Collectivization, even then, with all the terror that went with it. Unwilling small farmers and local railway officials were executed, with the blessing of Lenin, "not from sadism or panic, but as a political strategy, to galvanize the masses." Tsaritsyn was a microcosm of the coming terror state. Changed the grateful homeland in 1925 the name of the city in Stalingrad.
The first part ends with Stalin's intention of the great collectivization at the end of the twenties. Kotkin fights the common theory that it was a reaction to the grain crisis of 1927; Stalin called kolkhoz in the holy life because he believed in. The famine, mass unrest and state terror were bumps of history, counterrevolutionary against forces that had to be overcome, "he would keep going Even When've told to his face by officials in the inner regime That a catastrophe was unfolding- full speed ahead to socialism."
Stalin. Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stephen Kotkin
Young regime sent him out to Tsaritsyn, to put things in order in the grain supply to St. Petersburg and Moscow. Collectivization, even then, with all the terror that went with it. Unwilling small farmers and local railway officials were executed, with the blessing of Lenin, "not from sadism or panic, but as a political strategy, to galvanize the masses." Tsaritsyn was a microcosm of the coming terror state. Changed the grateful homeland in 1925 the name of the city in Stalingrad.
The first part ends with Stalin's intention of the great collectivization at the end of the twenties. Kotkin fights the common theory that it was a reaction to the grain crisis of 1927; Stalin called kolkhoz in the holy life because he believed in. The famine, mass unrest and state terror were bumps of history, counterrevolutionary against forces that had to be overcome, "he would keep going Even When've told to his face by officials in the inner regime That a catastrophe was unfolding- full speed ahead to socialism."
Stalin. Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stephen Kotkin
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