Stephen Kotkin. Stalin.

CONTENTS

Volume 1

Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

Preface

PART I

Double-Headed Eagle

1 – An Imperial Son

2 – Lado’s Disciple

3 – Tsarism’s Most Dangerous Enemy

4 – Constitutional Autocracy

PART II

Durnovó’s Revolutionary War

1 – Stupidity or Treason?

2 – Kalmyk Savior

3 – 1918: Dada and Lenin

4 – Class War and a Party-State

5 – Voyages of Discovery

PART III

Collision

1 – Dictator

2 – «Remove Stalin»

3 – Faithful Pupil

4 – Triumphant Debacle

5 – A trip to Siberia

CODA: If Stalin Had Died

Bibliography

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Volume 2

Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941

Preface

PART I

Equal to the Myth

1 – Triumph of the Will

2 – Apocalypse

3 – Victory

4 – Terrorism

5 – A Great Power

PART II

Terror as Statecraft

6 – On a Bluff

7 – Enemies Hunting Enemies

8 – «What Went On in No. 1’s Brain?»

9 – Missing Piece

PART III

Three-Card Monte

10 – Hammer

11 – Pact

12 – Smashed Pig

13 – Greed

14 – Fear

CODA: Little Corner, Saturday, June 21, 1941

Soviet Administrative Structure

Bibliography