Stalin in October

The Man Who Missed the Revolution
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3228-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

Originally published in 1987. In March 1917 young Joseph Stalin, already a high-ranking Bolshevik, returned from Siberian exile in search of greatness and power. But his activities during the months leading up to the October Revolution were full of blunders and misjudgments—failures that in later years Stalin obliterated from the historical record. Stalin in October reassembles the history of 1917 and explains why, on the eve of the revolutionaries' seizure of power, Stalin seemingly dropped out of the picture. "He would always be dogged," Slusser writes, "by a nagging sense of having somehow missed the revolution." The lingering shame was crucial to Stalin's development into a Soviet dictator.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Slusser, Robert M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen Russische Revolution
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politikerbiographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Chapter 1. March
Chapter 2. April
Chapter 3. May-June
Chapter 4. July
The July Days and Their Aftermath
The "Pencil Story": Stalin's Daydream
Mid-July: Stalin Emergent
The Sixth Party Congress
Chapter 5. August
Chapter 6 September-October
Chapter 7. Coda
Notes
Bibliography and List of Short Titles
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Slusser, Robert M
Robert M. Slusser was a professor of Russian and Soviet history at Michigan State University. He also taught at Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University. He wrote a number of books on Russian history, including The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Soviet-American Relations and the Struggle for Power in the Kremlin, June-November 1961.