Stalin
Subtitle: Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928
By: Stephen Kotkin
Contributors: Hecht, Paul; Recorded Books, LLC
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Prince Frederick, MD
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] /
Number of pages: 45
ISBN-13: 9781490630977
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; Psychology; Biography; Heads of state; Dictators; History
Other titles: Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928
Description: In his biography of Stalin, Kotkin rejects the inherited wisdom about Stalin's psychological makeup, showing us instead how Stalin's near paranoia was fundamentally political and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution's structural paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. At the same time, Kotkin posits the impossibility of understanding Stalin's momentous decisions outside of the context of the history of imperial Russia.--
Notes: Title from container.

Compact disc.

In two containers (17 cm.).

"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.

Narrated by Paul Hecht.
Table of contents: title: Part one: discs 1-16; title: Part two: discs 17-31.