{"product_id":"9780393308693","title":"Stalin in Power : The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941 by Robert C. Tucker","description":"This book forms the second volume of Tucker's biography of Stalin, the first volume of which was \"Stalin as Revolutionary\". The author shows that Stalin was a Bolshevik of the radical right whose revolution cast the country deep into its imperial, autocratic past. In 1929 Stalin plunged Soviet Russia into a coercive \"revolution from above\", a decade-long effort to amass military-industrial power for a new war. He forced 25 million peasant families into state-run collectives and transformed the Communist Party into a servile instrument. In 1939, he concluded the pact with Hitler that enabled him to grasp at Eastern Europe while Hitler made war in the West. Tucker brings a fresh analysis to these events and to the Terror of the 1930s, revealing the motives and methods of what he calls the greatest murder mystery of this century.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56289593819509,"sku":"9780393308693","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780393308693.jpg?v=1762724750","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780393308693","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}