Scorched Earth
Stalin's Reign of Terror
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23467908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jörg Baberowski (0000-0002-7147-3791, corresponding author) |
| Translators | Steven Gilbert, Ivo Komljen, Samantha Jeanne Taber |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 500 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Scorched earth (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Yale University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.12987/yale/9780300136982.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4236031428 |
| ISBN | 9780300136982 |
| Open Library | OL27226392M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad violence with which Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts Stalinism as a cruel and deliberate attack on Russian society, driven by “totalitarian ambitions” and the goal of modernizing and rationalizing a backward people. The text takes a twofold approach, emphasizing Stalin's personal role and responsibility as well as the continuity he sees in Communist aims and ideology since 1917. Unlike recent apologist accounts that focus on the challenges of modernization or on the operational complexities of managing the Soviet state, this hard-hitting analysis unequivocally locates the origins of the terror in the culture of violence and the techniques of power. Detailed, well-documented, and including many new details on the workings of the Stalinist state, this work encompasses the dictator's brutal reign from his achievement of total power in 1929 to his death in 1953.
Communism · Dictator · Economic history · Ideology · Indictment · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Reign · Sociology · Soviet union · State (computer science) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Soviet and Russian History · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy · 1917-1936 · 1936-1953 · 20th century · Dictatorship · Influence · Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) · Political and social views · Political violence · politics and government · Power (Social sciences) · Russia · Social aspects · Soviet Union · State-sponsored terrorism · Totalitarianism
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| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |