TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baberowski,Jörg
AU  - Taber,Samantha Jeanne
AU  - Gilbert,Steven
AU  - Komljen,Ivo
TI  - Scorched earth: Stalin's reign of terror 
T2  - The Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes
SN  - 9780300220575
AV  - DK267 .S367 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cumberland
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Stalin, Joseph,
KW  - Totalitarianism
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Dictatorship
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. What Was Stalinism?; 2. Imperial Spaces of Violence; 3. Pyrrhic Victories; 4. Subjugation; 5. Dictatorship of Dread; 6. Wars; 7. Stalin's Heirs; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; 2; b
N2  - 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 modernization or on the operational complexities of managing the Soviet state, this hard-hitting analysis unequivocally locates the origins of the terror in the culture of violence and the techniques of power. Detailed, well-documented, and including many new details on the workings of the Stalinist state, this powerful work encompasses the dictator's brutal reign from his achievement of total power in 1929 to his death in 1953.--
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