Joseph
Vissarionovich Stalin (Ioseb Jughashvili) 1879–1953 -
Georgia, RussiaPeople
Joseph
Vissarionovich Stalin (Ioseb Jughashvili) 1879–1953 -
Georgia, Russia
Encyclopedia Entries
History of the Soviet Union
Questions of
industrialization, totalitarianism
Reading
Leninism (tr., 2 vol., 1928–33),
Problems of Leninism (tr. 1934),
The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union (tr. 1945),
Stalin’s Works (tr. 1952–55)
Writing available on the net
Commentaries
- Alan Bullock, Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives, HarperCollins, 1991,
- Walter Laqueur, Stalin, Ediciones B, 2003,
- Adam B. Ulam , Stalin : The Man and His Era, Beacon Press, 1987,
- Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The court of the Red Tsar, Knopf, 2004,
- Robert C. Tucker, Stalin as Revolutionary,1879-1929, Norton, 1973,
- Robert C. Tucker, Stalin in Power. The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941, Norton, 1990,
- Chapter 1 of Stalin: The First In-Depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives by Edvard Radzinsky (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/stalin.htm)
- Another view of Stalin (http://www.plp.org/books/Stalin/book.html) - Progressive Labor Party
- "The Revolution Betrayed" by Leon Trotsky (http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1936-rev/index.htm)
- - Stalin nicknames (http://dictatorstyrants.bravepages.com/stalin.html)
- An account of the Kirov Murder (http://www.indepthinfo.com/kirov/index.shtml)
- Death toll during Stalin's rule:estimates (http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm#Stalin)
- Modern History Sourcebook: Stalin's Reply to Churchill, 1946 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1946stalin.html)
- Modern History Sourcebook: Nikita S. Khrushchev: The Secret Speech - On the Cult of Personality, 1956 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1956khrushchev-secret1.html)
- The political economy of Stalinism: evidence from the Soviet secret archives / Paul R. Gregory (http://assets.cambridge.org/0521826284/sample/0521826284WS.pdf)
- Impressions of Soviet Russia, by John Dewey (http://geocities.com/deweytextsonline/isr.htm)
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