| Russian Atheists: Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Leon Trotsky, Ayn Rand, Mikhail Bakunin, Vyacheslav Molotov Contributor(s): Source Wikipedia (Author), Group, Books (Editor), Books, LLC (Created by) |
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ISBN: 1155265297 ISBN-13: 9781155265292 Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series OUR PRICE: $20.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| Publisher Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 84. Chapters: Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Leon Trotsky, Ayn Rand, Mikhail Bakunin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Zhores Alferov, Vladimir Lenin, Isaak Babel, Andrei Gromyko, Alexander Poskrebyshev, Mikhail Suslov, Nikolai Krylenko, Dmitry Puchkov, Adolph Joffe, Aleksandr Zinovyev, Mikhail Kalinin, Vitaly Ginzburg, Viktor Sergeyevich Boyko, Viktor Grigoryevich Afanasyev, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Cecilia Bobrovskaya, Semyon Dimanstein, Mikhail Lifshitz, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, Abram Deborin, Vladimir Tendryakov, Svyatoslav Loginov. Excerpt: Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 - 5 March 1953) was a Georgian-born, Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary, who held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. While formally the office of the General Secretary was elective and was not initially regarded as the top position in the Soviet state, after Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin managed to consolidate more and more power in his hands, gradually putting down all opposition groups within the party. This included Leon Trotsky, the Red Army organizer, proponent of world revolution, and principal critic of Stalin among the early Soviet leaders, who was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929. Instead, Stalin's idea of socialism in one country became the primary line of the Soviet politics. In 1928, Stalin replaced the New Economic Policy of the 1920s with a highly centralised command economy and Five-Year Plans, launching a period of rapid industrialization and economic collectivization in the countryside. As a result, the USSR was transformed from a largely agrarian society into a great industrial power, and the basis was provided for its emergence as the... |