{"product_id":"stalin-in-power-the-revolution-from-above-1928-1941-0393308693","title":"Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393308693\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tucker, Robert C.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"To my mind, the most significant single scholarly contribution made to date, anywhere, to the history of Soviet power.\"-George F. Kennan This book forms the second volume of Tucker's biography of Stalin, the first volume of which was \"Stalin as Revolutionary\". The author shows that Stalin was a Bolshevik of the radical right whose revolution cast the country deep into its imperial, autocratic past. In 1929 Stalin plunged Soviet Russia into a coercive \"revolution from above\", a decade-long effort to amass military-industrial power for a new war. He forced 25 million peasant families into state-run collectives and transformed the Communist Party into a servile instrument. In 1939, he concluded the pact with Hitler that enabled him to grasp at Eastern Europe while Hitler made war in the West. Tucker brings a fresh analysis to these events and to the Terror of the 1930s, revealing the motives and methods of what he calls the greatest murder mystery of this century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51856285368608,"sku":"NEW0393308693","price":47.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/51To5eZuaUL.jpg?v=1781548819","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/stalin-in-power-the-revolution-from-above-1928-1941-0393308693","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}