Stalin As Revolutionary 1879-1929: A Study In History And Personality
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Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Faded spine. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages secure.
A landmark work in political biography, Stalin as Revolutionary 1879-1929: A Study in History and Personality chronicles the formative decades of Joseph Stalin's life, from his birth in Georgia through his rise to supreme power in the Soviet Union. Robert C. Tucker brings together rigorous historical scholarship and penetrating psychological analysis to illuminate how a young seminary student became one of the twentieth century's most consequential and ruthless dictators. Drawing on Marxist theory, Russian history, and personality psychology, Tucker argues that Stalin's paranoid drive for dominance was not merely a product of ideological conviction but of deep personal pathology rooted in his early experiences. The result is a serious, authoritative portrait that transformed how historians and biographers understand the relationship between individual psychology and political power. This first volume of Tucker's acclaimed two-part biography remains an essential text for anyone seeking to understand the origins of Stalinist totalitarianism.
Author: Robert C. Tucker
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Genre: Biography
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Faded spine. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages secure.
A landmark work in political biography, Stalin as Revolutionary 1879-1929: A Study in History and Personality chronicles the formative decades of Joseph Stalin's life, from his birth in Georgia through his rise to supreme power in the Soviet Union. Robert C. Tucker brings together rigorous historical scholarship and penetrating psychological analysis to illuminate how a young seminary student became one of the twentieth century's most consequential and ruthless dictators. Drawing on Marxist theory, Russian history, and personality psychology, Tucker argues that Stalin's paranoid drive for dominance was not merely a product of ideological conviction but of deep personal pathology rooted in his early experiences. The result is a serious, authoritative portrait that transformed how historians and biographers understand the relationship between individual psychology and political power. This first volume of Tucker's acclaimed two-part biography remains an essential text for anyone seeking to understand the origins of Stalinist totalitarianism.