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Stalin: Triumph und Tragödie
Mit der ersten sowjetischen Stalin-Biographie nach dem Tod des Diktators von Wolkogonow wurden die Quellen der jüngeren sowjetischen Geschichte endlich der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht. Zum ersten Mal war es einem Autor möglich, alle vorhandenen Zeugnisse über die Stalin-Zeit auszuwerten. Auf sie gestützt, gelang ihm ein atemberaubendes Porträt. Alle bisherigen Versuche, den Diktator zu charakterisieren, verblassen angesichts der Tatsachen: Die Dokumente aus dem Politbüro, aus dem Exekutivkomitee der Kommunistischen Internationale, aus den Sicherheitsorganen oder aus dem Volkskommissariat für Äußeres sprechen eine erschütternde Sprache. Dimitri Wolkogonows voluminöse Biographie ist ein Schlüsselwerk, das nun endlich wieder zugänglich ist!
848 pages, Hardcover
Published October 29, 2015
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July 21, 2021
nossa mt morto pra escrever qlqr textão sobre, mas no geral no geral gostei e recomendo.
May 5, 2019
#stalin - welch eine Figur, welch ein Monster, berechnend, zielstrebig, paranoid, unerbittlich. Freunde und Feinde sind nie der Verstoßung durch ihn sicher, die häufig auch den Tod bedeutet. Umgeben von Speichelleckern und Ja-Sagern stirbt er schlussendlich an dieser tyrannischen Machtfülle, da niemand das Zimmer zu betreten wagt, in dem er mit dem Tod ringt. #dimitriwolkogonow hat 1989 als erster Russe, noch in Zeiten der #Sowjetunion diese Biografie veröffentlicht. Ein faszinierendes Zeitzeugnis auch der schwierigen Auseinandersetzung der Sowjets mit ihrem großen Führer, der zugleich ihr großer Massenmörder war. #geschichte #stalinismus
July 22, 2020
Um livro que promete e não cumpre. Mais um produto barato de uma historiografia vendida da Guerra Fria. O que salva essa leitura é, certamente, a documentação que Volkogonov teve acesso
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October 17, 2021Gostei mais do biografado do que do biografado. Uma análise séria e muito ponderada, que coloca Stalin no seu verdadeiro lugar na história e nos faz peguntar qual deve ser o limite do poder.
May 18, 2022
Written by Soviet Army Colonel Dmitri Volkogonov in 1983 but banned by the Communist Party, Stalin's biography was not published until just before the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Volkogonov gained access to the Party's secret archives and assembled a large amount of information, some unpublished, about the “man of steel” who ruled with an iron fist the most powerful country of the communist bloc.
The first book deals with the formation of Iosef Vissarionovich Djugashvili, Stalin. From the revolution that overthrew the tsarist regime, through the period of repression, with the purges and elimination of the opposition (real or imaginary) and the alliance with the Nazis, until the Second World War, in 1939. In the second volume the author presents the struggle to defeat Nazi Germany, deals with the breaking of the Non-Aggression Pact, presents the relationship with Soviet generals and Allied leaders, the victory over Hitler, the assassination of Trotsky and Stalin's involvement in crime, the cult of personality and the Stalin's death in 1953.
Volkogonov's material includes secret correspondence exchanged with Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler, Molotov and Zhukov, among other politicians and military personnel, letters to his family, notes, orders and notes on executions and personal matters. 1878 and only adopted the famous pseudonym in 1913. Stalin, in Russian means “made of steel”, that's how the mustachioed dictator saw himself, despite his 1.62 height (Putin is 1.70). He ruled the Soviet Union from 1920 to 1953 and was idolized by some, hated by others... until today.
During the period of Perestroika in conjunction with Glasnost, two policies introduced by Gorbachev, a process of historical review emerged, so it is important to understand the context of the crisis in which the book was written, as it is a case of economic and social transition. and resignification of the historical memory of the Soviet regime and this work, written in the heat of the moment, is a dense expression of this process. I recommend reading it for anyone who already has a good base of historical, cultural and political knowledge of Russia.
@thereader2408
The first book deals with the formation of Iosef Vissarionovich Djugashvili, Stalin. From the revolution that overthrew the tsarist regime, through the period of repression, with the purges and elimination of the opposition (real or imaginary) and the alliance with the Nazis, until the Second World War, in 1939. In the second volume the author presents the struggle to defeat Nazi Germany, deals with the breaking of the Non-Aggression Pact, presents the relationship with Soviet generals and Allied leaders, the victory over Hitler, the assassination of Trotsky and Stalin's involvement in crime, the cult of personality and the Stalin's death in 1953.
Volkogonov's material includes secret correspondence exchanged with Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler, Molotov and Zhukov, among other politicians and military personnel, letters to his family, notes, orders and notes on executions and personal matters. 1878 and only adopted the famous pseudonym in 1913. Stalin, in Russian means “made of steel”, that's how the mustachioed dictator saw himself, despite his 1.62 height (Putin is 1.70). He ruled the Soviet Union from 1920 to 1953 and was idolized by some, hated by others... until today.
During the period of Perestroika in conjunction with Glasnost, two policies introduced by Gorbachev, a process of historical review emerged, so it is important to understand the context of the crisis in which the book was written, as it is a case of economic and social transition. and resignification of the historical memory of the Soviet regime and this work, written in the heat of the moment, is a dense expression of this process. I recommend reading it for anyone who already has a good base of historical, cultural and political knowledge of Russia.
@thereader2408
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