Russia After Stalin
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
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In the shadow of one of history's most brutal dictatorships, Isaac Deutscher's Russia After Stalin presents a penetrating and remarkably prescient analysis of the Soviet Union at its most uncertain crossroads — the period immediately following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. Written by one of the foremost political biographers of the twentieth century, the work chronicles the seismic power struggles, ideological tremors, and cautious liberalisation that gripped the USSR as a new generation of Soviet leaders scrambled to consolidate control and redefine the communist project for a post-Stalinist world. Deutscher, celebrated for his monumental trilogy on Leon Trotsky, brings his characteristic blend of Marxist rigour and journalistic acuity to bear on the inner mechanics of Soviet power, arguing with compelling force that the seeds of reform — and of contradiction — were sown deep within the system Stalin himself had built. This edition, with a new introduction by Marcel Liebman, adds a further layer of historical perspective that enriches the original text considerably. A masterly work of political analysis, it leaves the reader asking the question that haunted a generation: could the Soviet empire ever truly escape the long shadow of the man who had defined it?
Author: Isaac Deutscher
Format: Paperback
Genre: History
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the shadow of one of history's most brutal dictatorships, Isaac Deutscher's Russia After Stalin presents a penetrating and remarkably prescient analysis of the Soviet Union at its most uncertain crossroads — the period immediately following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. Written by one of the foremost political biographers of the twentieth century, the work chronicles the seismic power struggles, ideological tremors, and cautious liberalisation that gripped the USSR as a new generation of Soviet leaders scrambled to consolidate control and redefine the communist project for a post-Stalinist world. Deutscher, celebrated for his monumental trilogy on Leon Trotsky, brings his characteristic blend of Marxist rigour and journalistic acuity to bear on the inner mechanics of Soviet power, arguing with compelling force that the seeds of reform — and of contradiction — were sown deep within the system Stalin himself had built. This edition, with a new introduction by Marcel Liebman, adds a further layer of historical perspective that enriches the original text considerably. A masterly work of political analysis, it leaves the reader asking the question that haunted a generation: could the Soviet empire ever truly escape the long shadow of the man who had defined it?