TY  - BOOK
AU  - Service,Robert
TI  - Stalin: a biography 
SN  - 9780330518376
AV  - 338 DK 268 S782S 2004
U1  - 947.0842092 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London
PB  - Pan Books
KW  - Stalin, Joseph, 
KW  - Heads of state
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Biography
KW  - Jefes de Estado
KW  - Unión Soviética
KW  - Biografías
KW  - History
KW  - 1925-1953
KW  - Historia
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [661]-680) and index; Preface		ix	
A Note on Renderings		xii	
Maps		xiii	
ONE: THE REVOLUTIONARY	
1. STALIN AS WE HAVE KNOWN HIM
3	(10)
2. THE FAMILY DZHUGHASHVILI
13	(10)
3. THE SCHOOLING OF A PRIEST
23	(9)
4. POET AND REBEL
32	(11)
5. MARXIST MILITANT
43	(13)
6. THE PARTY AND THE CAUCASUS
56	(12)
7. ON THE RUN
68	(13)
8. AT THE CENTRE OF THE PARTY
81	(11)
9. KOBA AND BOLSHEVISM
92	(10)
10. OSIP OF SIBERIA
102	(11)
11. RETURN TO PETROGRAD
113	(14)
TWO: LEADER FOR THE PARTY	
12. THE YEAR 1917
127	(13)
13. OCTOBER
140	(10)
14. PEOPLE'S COMMISSAR
150	(13)
15. TO THE FRONT!
163	(12)
16. THE POLISH CORRIDOR
175	(11)
17. WITH LENIN
186	(11)
18. NATION AND REVOLUTION
197	(11)
19. TESTAMENT
208	(11)
20. THE OPPORTUNITIES OF STRUGGLE
219	(11)
21. JOSEPH AND NADYA
230	(10)
22. FACTIONALIST AGAINST FACTIONS
240	(13)
THREE: DESPOT	
23. ENDING THE NEP
253	(12)
24. TERROR-ECONOMICS
265	(13)
25. ASCENT TO SUPREMACY
278	(11)
26. THE DEATH OF NADYA
289	(10)
27. MODERNITY'S SORCERER
299	(11)
28. FEARS IN VICTORY
310	(13)
29. RULING THE NATIONS
323	(13)
30. MIND OF TERROR
336	(10)
31. THE GREAT TERRORIST
346	(11)
32. THE CULT OF IMPERSONALITY
357	(10)
33. BRUTAL REPRIEVE
367	(12)
FOUR: WARLORD	
34. THE WORLD IN SIGHT
379	(11)
35. APPROACHES TO WAR
390	(9)
36. THE DEVILS SUP
399	(11)
37. BARBAROSSA
410	(10)
38. FIGHTING ON
420	(10)
39. SLEEPING ON THE DIVAN
430	(9)
40. TO THE DEATH!
439	(10)
41. SUPREME COMMANDER
449	(10)
42. THE BIG THREE
459	(10)
43. LAST CAMPAIGNS
469	(9)
44. VICTORY!
478	(13)
FIVE: THE IMPERATOR	
45. DELIVERING THE BLOW
491	(10)
46. THE OUTBREAK OF THE COLD WAR
501	(10)
47. SUBJUGATING EASTERN EUROPE
511	(10)
48. STALINIST RULERSHIP
521	(10)
49. POLICIES AND PURGES
531	(10)
50. EMPEROR WORSHIP
541	(10)
51. DANGEROUS LIAISONS
551	(9)
52. VOZHD AND INTELLECTUAL
560	(11)
53. AILING DESPOT
571	(10)
54. DEATH AND EMBALMING
581	(10)
55. AFTER STALIN
591	(14)
Glossary		605	(3)
Notes		608	(53)
Select Bibliography		661	(20)
Index		681	
N2  - Service brings 30 years of involvement with Russia and its history to bear on this most controversial and enigmatic of figures. The events of the October Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Terror and, above all, World War II, more open to examination than ever before, are probed to explain the nature of Stalin's personality
ER  -