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Per un quarto di secolo (1929-1953) Iosif Stalin è stato il padrone assoluto dell'Unione Sovietica. Dall'ufficio al Cremlino, o dalle dacie fuori Mosca dove spesso risiedeva, il dittatore gestiva con pugno di ferro ogni aspetto della vita sociale, sulla base di un'interpretazione estremistica e ultrasemplificata del marxismo. Ossessionato dall'idea di "nemici interni" pronti a tradirlo, Stalin instaurò un regime di terrore che non permise mai a nessuno dei suoi sudditi di sentirsi al sicuro. Si calcola che ben 60 milioni di persone incolpevoli abbiano subito i tragici effetti della discriminazione e repressione, fino alla pena capitale. Eppure, oggi in Russia sembra rifiorire il mito di Stalin quale figura storicamente "necessaria", che ha avuto quantomeno il merito di trasformare un paese arretrato in una superpotenza industriale in grado di affrontare e sconfiggere Hitler. Oleg Chlevnjuk, considerato il maggior esperto mondiale di Stalin e del suo tempo, si oppone a tale tendenza "giustificazionista" sfatando vari miti sul despota sovietico, da quelli celebrativi che lo dipingono come "amministratore eccelso", "stratega militare lungimirante", "vittima di ambiziosi e avidi collaboratori" agli altri, opposti, che lo vorrebbero "traditore del lascito di Lenin", o addirittura, e unicamente, "belva assetata di sangue" e "criminale sadico e paranoico".
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- Pagine: 467
- Data di uscita: 09-05-2017
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There should be a guide for us poor readers of biographies. There are multiple biographies available for all famous people and the biographies differ wildly. With this guy Stalin, I have recently tried Stephen Kotkin's massive first-of-three parts 900 page tome with its teenytiny typeface and it def Leggi tutto
An excellent scholarly yet easy to read Stalin biography. Oleg V. Khlevniuk has dug deep into the Russian archives to create this relatively concise by most biographical standards yet authoritative account of Stalin's life. Whilst I was familiar with Stalin’s wartime role I was less familiar with his Leggi tutto
4,5 close to 5. Definitely best book I've read this year yet... Well written, very readable and impressively informative. The latter is no surprising, taking into account that endnotes make up to almost 70 pages. Extremely impressive...
I have been interested in reading a good Bio on Stalin for a while and this new once popped up on my radar. Well researched and written it reads well and seems to cover his life from early obscurity to his death. Enjoyable read. Recommended
دا كتاب لطيف جدا، سيرة شبه شاملة لمسيرة ستالين الحديدية، وقدرته المستمرة على التواجد في المناطق الآمنة والانقلاب بعد كدا والانتصار على الكل، بحقد وكره واضح. ستالين فعلا من أهم شخصيات القرن العشرين واخطرهم، الرجل قدر ينافس ويفوز في الاتحاد السوفيتي بكل جرأة واقتدار، من أول وفاة لينين وهو دخل صراعات كا Leggi tutto
Leon Trotsky, Isaac Deutscher, Robert Service, Stephen Kotkin, Robert Conquest, and Simon Sebag Montefiore have all produced widely-read accounts of Joseph Stalin’s life. They’re among scores of others. In fact, Amazon dredges up more than 1,000 titles in response to the query “Stalin biography.” Wh Leggi tutto
An excellent and (apparently) very reliable biography of Stalin. It is by a Russian historian based on the then recently opened archives and is well translated into English. He occasionally has an agenda--which is portraying Stalin (accurately) as the terrible person he was, against the increasingly Leggi tutto
Although this book is published by Yale, Klehvniuk is a research fellow at the Russian national archives, and has devoted twenty years of his life to studying Stalin, the ruler that held much of Eastern Europe in an iron grasp from 1929-1953, when he died. That must be a really dark place, but he’s Leggi tutto
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