{"product_id":"stalin-9780691202716","title":"Stalin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Honorable Mention for the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, ASEEES\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize, Barry Amiel \u0026amp; Norman Melburn trust\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The book’s strength lies . . . in its excavation of important episodes of the early years. . . . What I took from \u003ci\u003ePassage to Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e — and I agree with the idea — is that young Stalin was an angry optimist. . . . His hefty, demanding tome emphasizes the effects of changing circumstances that pivoted both Stalin and Russia into a vortex of revolution and civil war.\"\u003cb\u003e---Robert Service, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Joseph Stalin has been the subject of many biographical studies. . . . Ronald Grigor Suny's ‘Stalin: Passage to Revolution’ is a worthy contribution to this continuing enterprise. . . . In highly readable prose Mr. Suny . . . tells the story of the young Stalin's rise.\"\u003cb\u003e---Joshua Rubenstein, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A Georgianist as well as a Russianist, equally comfortable with social, cultural and political history, Suny outclasses previous biographers of the young Stalin . . . It is a monumental work of history and its treatment and evocation of the young Stalin will never be bettered.\"\u003cb\u003e---Geoffrey Roberts, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A comprehensive, deeply researched study of one of the world’s most brutal dictators as he took the paths that would lead him to power.\"\u003cb\u003e---Starred Review, \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cp\u003eThis impressively researched biography provides remarkable and reliable details on the first part of Stalin’s life, along with the many fissures among the Left Communists. An important accomplishment. \u003c\/p\u003e\" * Library Journal, starred review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Suny, using an abundance of newly available archival material, though there was no secret diary or introspective documents, provides an extraordinary telling, a detailed account, well written and engrossing, of the obscure and multiple layers of experience in Stalin's early life: church school, seminary, outlaw, exile, prison, attraction to Marxism.\"\u003cb\u003e---Michael Curtis, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Thinker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"He [Suny] is a lucid writer and a perspicacious scholar.\"\u003cb\u003e---Stephen Lovell, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The overriding merit of this book is that it takes Stalin seriously. It explains his life and development without feeling the need to impose a value judgement on the reader on every page.\"\u003cb\u003e---Andrew Murray, \u003ci\u003eMorning Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ronald Grigor Suny has written a massive, extensively researched biography of Josef Stalin’s early years—from his childhood days in Gori, Georgia, to the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917.\"\u003cb\u003e---Francis P. Sempa, \u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ronald Grigor Suny has created a detailed and unbiased biography of the first half of Joseph Stalin’s life. . . . one of the best on its subject.\"\u003cb\u003e---Maria Timofeeva, \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Military History and Historiography IJMH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is Suny’s magnum opus, the product of decades of scholarly research.\"\u003cb\u003e---Duncan Bowie, \u003ci\u003eChartist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403887583575,"sku":"9780691202716","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691202716.jpg?v=1730484806","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stalin-9780691202716","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}