Stalin in power : the revolution from above, 1928-1941

Detailed bookmarks Recounts Stalin's establishment of state-run collectives, discusses the political reasons behind his pact with Hitler, and analyzes the effects of Stalin's reign Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Acknowledgments Epigraph Introduction: Toward A New October Part One: THE SETTING 1. THE TSARDOM'S RISE Muscovy Encircled The Origins of Autocracy The Crowned Revolutionary 2. LENIN'S LEGACY The State Builder A Reformist Road to Socialism Muscovy Redux Diverging Bolshevisms 3 STALIN'S PROGRAM To Revolution Through War Learning From Russia's Past Toward Collectivization The New Peter Part Two: THE FIRST PHASE 4. STARTING THE SECOND REVOLUTION The General Line Beating the War Drums The Shakhty Case The Grain Collections Crisis Stalin's Leninism 5. THE FIVE -YEAR PLAN IN FOUR! The Plan Is Only the Beginning "Cultural Revolution" The State Swells Up The Policy of Privilege The Count and the Commissar 6. THE MAKING OF A RURAL UPHEAVAL Stalin's Power On the Eve Collectivizing from Above The November Plenum The Strategy of Terror 7. THE CULT AND ITS CREATOR The Premier Philosopher Of Real and Other Bolsheviks The Glorifiers at Work The Need for Enemies 8. TERROR AND CALAMITY: STALIN'S OCTOBER The Terror Strategy in Action The Emergency and After Hungry Thirty-Three Back to Barshchina The Balance Sheet 9. STALIN'S TIME OF TROUBLE The Anti-Stalin Backlash Political Opposition Bolshevik Disbelievers A Death in the Family The Birth of the Great-Conspiracy Theory 10. THE DIPLOMACY OF RAPPROCHEMENT WITH GERMANY The German Orientation Stalin and the Nazi Revolution First Overtures 11. THE CONGRESS OF VICTIMS The Reconciliation Line The Cabal of the Regional Secretaries Reorganizing the Control System Whither Foreign Policy? After the Congress To Remake the Party Part Three: THE SECOND PHASE 12: THE COMING OF THE GREAT PURGE Conspiracy from Above "Ivan Vasilievich" and the Bolshevik Grandees Internal Détente Murder in Leningrad Tense December 13. POLITICS AND SOCIETY POLITICS AND SOCIETY The Quiet Terror The Birth of a Treason Trial The New Service Nobility A People's Vozhd' 14. STALIN AND FASCISM Popular Front Politics The Dual Diplomacy Counterintervention in Spain The Mask of Antifascism The End of Maxim Gorky 15. THE FORGING OF AUTOCRACY I Old Bolsheviks on Trial Next Steps The Antimilitary Conspiracy The Terror Deepens 16. THE FORGING OF AUTOCRACY II Stalin's Radek and Radek's Stalin Stalin Woos Hitler After the Trial The Fall of the Central Committee The Storm Breaks 17. THE TERROR PROCESS Stalin's Role Denunciation A Spearman's Maneuver Inquisition The Why of Forced Confession 18. TERROR, RUSSIAN NATIONALISM, AND FOREIGN POLICY Iosif Grozny Terror in the Non-Russian Republics The Great Purge Trial Antiforeign Terror Stalin and Munich 19. THE REVOLUTION OF BELIEF An Elite Transformed Stalin as Party Historian The Short Course as Autobiography The Only Authoritative Marxism The Statist Realm of Socialism The Outcome 20. THE SCRIPTED CULTURE Culture's Dictator Heroes and Their Deeds The Hero-Nation: Russia Enemies and Their Deeds The Shadow Culture 21. CULMINATIONS, 1939-1940 The Party Congress and After The Path to the Pact Collaborating with Germany Saluting Stalin at Sixty War Clouds Gather 22. THE RECKONING NOTES Introduction: Toward a New October 1. The Tsardom's Rise 2. Lenin's Legacy 3. Stalin's Program 4. Starting the Second Revolution 5. The Five-Year Plan in Four! 6. The Making of a Rural Upheaval 7. The Cult and Its Creator 8. Terror and Calamity: Stalin's October 9. Stalin's Time of Trouble 10. The Diplomacy of Rapprochement with Germany 11. The Congress of Victims 12. The Coming of the Great Purge 13. Politics and Society in the Purge Era 14. Stalin and Fascism 15. The Forging of Autocracy I 16. The Forging of Autocracy II 17. The Terror Process 18. Terror, Russian Nationalism, and Foreign Policy 19. The Revolution of Belief 20. The Scripted Culture 21. Culminations, 1939-1940 22. The Reckoning BIBLIOGRAPHY I. Archival Sources and Governmental Documents II. Congresses, Conferences, Other Proceedings III. Books in Russian IV. Books in Other Languages V. Newspapers and Periodicals in Russian VI. Articles in Russian VII. Articles in Other Languages VIII. Unpublished Material INDEX Book Cover In 1929 Stalin plunged Soviet Russia into a coercive revolution from above, a decade-long effort to amass military-industrial power in preparation for a new war. Later in the 1930s Stalin transformed the Communist Party into a servile instrument of his personal dictatorship. In 1939 he concluded a pact with Hitler that enabled him to impose his revolution on parts of Eastern Europe while Hitler made war on the West. With the publication of 'Stalin In Power', this pivotal sequence of events at last acquires a its interpretive history.

A professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University explains at last in authoritative detail the motivations, personality, and actions of the brutal ruler whose years in power still cast a dark shadow on the world stage. A dramatic narrative interweaving newly documented information, political analysis, and psychological insight. Photographs.