Description
About the Author
Robert Gellately is Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University. His publications have been translated into over twenty languages and include the widely acclaimed Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: the Age of Social Catastrophe (2007), Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 (2001), and The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933-1945 (1990), the last two also published by Oxford University Press. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
Reviews
Stalin's Curse draws on up-to-date secondary literature and recent documentary collections. It is a powerful work of synthesis. * Professor Robert Service, the New Statesman *
Mr Gellately's latest work has a good claim to be the best single-volume account of the darkest period in Russian history. * The Economist *
graphically and succinctly told ... The narrative is compelling. * Donald Rayfield, Literary Review *
[An] outstanding work A prominent historian of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, Gellately offers a panoramic view of Stalin's political, diplomatic and psychological manoeuvres that allowed the USSR to achieve superpower status. The author has an encyclopaedic knowledge of his subject and provides a compelling narrative of deception, brutality, foolishness and betrayed idealism. * Vladimir Tismaneanu, Times Higher Education *
Incisive work * Joseph C. Goulden, The Washington Times *
Masterful ... this book should become a go-to read on how the Cold War developed * Library Journal *
An impeccably researched and cogently argued book * Andrew Roberts, Wall Street Journal *
Thoroughly researched, Gellately's fine contribution to Cold War studies will engage readers with its inside-the-Kremlin detail. * Booklist *
Gellately ... adds to his distinguished body of work on 20th-century totalitarianism with this analysis ... Interweaving scholarship and the testimonies of those who suffered under Stalin's rule, [his] history is political and personal. * Publishers' Weekly *
eloquently tells the story of the astonishing transformation in the global fortunes of Communist rule in the wake of a devastating war, and of the central role of Stalin in this process. * Tim Rees, English Historical Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199668045
Author Robert Gellately
Format Hardback
Page Count 498
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 162mm * 44mm