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Originally published in 1987. In March 1917 young Joseph Stalin, already a high-ranking Bolshevik, returned from Siberian exile in search of greatness and power. But his activities during the months leading up to the October Revolution were full of blunders and misjudgmentsfailures that in later years Stalin obliterated from the historical record. Stalin in October reassembles the history of 1917 and explains why, on the eve of the revolutionaries' seizure of power, Stalin seemingly dropped out of the picture. He would always be dogged, Slusser writes, by a nagging sense of having somehow missed the revolution. The lingering shame was crucial to Stalin's development into a Soviet dictator.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Chapter 1. March
Chapter 2. April
Chapter 3. May-June
Chapter 4. July
The July Days and Their Aftermath
The "Pencil Story" : Stalin's Daydream
Mid-July: Stalin Emergent
The Sixth Party Congress
Chapter 5. August
Chapter 6 September-October
Chapter 7. Coda
Notes
Bibliography and List of Short Titles
Index

Stalin in October

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 January 2020
      ISBN-13 9781421432281
      978-1421432281
      ISBN-10 1421432285

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Originally published in 1987. In March 1917 young Joseph Stalin, already a high-ranking Bolshevik, returned from Siberian exile in search of greatness and power. But his activities during the months leading up to the October Revolution were full of blunders and misjudgmentsfailures that in later years Stalin obliterated from the historical record. Stalin in October reassembles the history of 1917 and explains why, on the eve of the revolutionaries' seizure of power, Stalin seemingly dropped out of the picture. He would always be dogged, Slusser writes, by a nagging sense of having somehow missed the revolution. The lingering shame was crucial to Stalin's development into a Soviet dictator.

      Table of Contents

      Preface and Acknowledgments
      Note to the Reader
      Chapter 1. March
      Chapter 2. April
      Chapter 3. May-June
      Chapter 4. July
      The July Days and Their Aftermath
      The "Pencil Story" : Stalin's Daydream
      Mid-July: Stalin Emergent
      The Sixth Party Congress
      Chapter 5. August
      Chapter 6 September-October
      Chapter 7. Coda
      Notes
      Bibliography and List of Short Titles
      Index

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