Stalin, Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 By: Stephen Kotkin [Audiobook]

Author: Stephen Kotkin
Narrated by: Paul Hecht

A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world. It has the quality of myth: A poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian Empire, reinvents himself as a revolutionary and finds a leadership role within a small group of marginal zealots. When the old world is unexpectedly brought down in a total war, the band seizes control of the country, and the new regime it founds as the vanguard of a new world order is ruthlessly dominated from within by the former seminarian until he stands as the absolute ruler of a vast and terrible state apparatus, with dominion over Eurasia. We think we know the story well. Remarkably, Stephen Kotkin’s epic new biography shows us how much we still have to learn.

Volume One of Stalin begins and ends in January 1928 as Stalin boards a train bound for Siberia, about to embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He is now the ruler of the largest country in the world, but a poor and backward one, far behind the great capitalist countries in industrial and military power, encircled on all sides. In Siberia, Stalin conceives of the largest program of social reengineering ever attempted: the root-and-branch uprooting and collectivization of agriculture and industry across the entire Soviet Union. To stand up to the capitalists he will force into being an industrialized, militarized, collectivized great power is an act of will. Millions will die, and many more will suffer, but Stalin will push through to the end against all resistance and doubts. Where did such power come from? The product of a decade of scrupulous and intrepid research, Stalin contains a host of astonishing revelations. Kotkin gives an intimate first-ever view of the Bolshevik regime’s inner geography, bringing to the fore materials from Soviet military intelligence and the secret police.

2.2M	[001] Title.mp3
2.2M	[002] Quote.mp3
2.0M	[003] STALIN - THE PARADOXES OF POWER.mp3
30M	[004] PART 1 DOUBLE-HEADED EAGLE.mp3
12M	[005] CHAPTER 1. AN IMPERIAL SON.mp3
12M	[006] 1.1. Small-Town Idyll.mp3
25M	[007] 1.2. Geopolitical Rupture, Surrogate Family Succor.mp3
12M	[008] 1.3. Faith in God.mp3
7.6M	[009] CHAPTER 2. LADO'S DISCIPLE.mp3
15M	[010] 2.1. Georgian Cultural Nationalist.mp3
11M	[011] 2.2. Student Politics.mp3
22M	[012] 2.3. Marxism and Russia.mp3
14M	[013] 2.4. Agitator, Teacher.mp3
22M	[014] 2.5. Underground.mp3
17M	[015] CHAPTER 3. TSARISM'S MOST DANGEROUS ENEMY.mp3
22M	[016] 3.1. Modernity as Geopolitical Imperative.mp3
26M	[017] 3.2. Crushing Defeat in Asia.mp3
20M	[018] 3.3. Leftist Factionalism.mp3
20M	[019] 3.4. Disintegration and Rescue.mp3
18M	[020] CHAPTER 4. CONSTITUTIONAL AUTOCRACY.mp3
17M	[021] 4.1. Russia's (Second) Would-Be Bismarck.mp3
17M	[022] 4.2. Russia's Proto-Fascism.mp3
20M	[023] 4.3. a Pundit.mp3
13M	[024] 4.4. Geopolitical Orientation.mp3
21M	[025] 4.5. Dead-End Banditry.mp3
27M	[026] 4.6. Parallel Self-Defeat.mp3
16M	[027] 4.7. Tragic Secret.mp3
26M	[028] PART II DURNOVÓ'S REVOLUTIONARY WAR.mp3
11M	[029] CHAPTER 5. STUPIDITY OR TREASON....mp3
26M	[030] 5.1. Sarajevo and State Prestige.mp3
12M	[031] 5.2. the Summons to Lenin.mp3
16M	[032] 5.3. Conscripts and the Awol.mp3
24M	[033] 5.4. Autocracy Prepares a Revolution.mp3
11M	[034] 5.5. Last Last Straw.mp3
13M	[035] 5.6. Crackdown and Desertion.mp3
13M	[036] 5.7. Treason.mp3
14M	[037] CHAPTER 6. KALMYK SAVIOR.mp3
27M	[038] 6.1. Freedom Versus Firm Authority.mp3
27M	[039] 6.2. Lenin's Helpmates.mp3
6.2M	[040] 6.3. Zealotry.mp3
15M	[041] 6.4. Rolling the Iron Dice.mp3
18M	[042] 6.5. Kerensky's First Failed Coup.mp3
19M	[043] 6.6. Kerensky's Second Failed Coup.mp3
20M	[044] 6.7. the Vanishing Act.mp3
29M	[045] 6.8. Lenin and Trotsky.mp3
17M	[046] CHAPTER 7. 1918 - DADA AND LENIN.mp3
19M	[047] 7.1. Monopoly.mp3
15M	[048] 7.2. Statelessness.mp3
17M	[049] 7.3. Balloting.mp3
20M	[050] 7.4. Trotsky's Failure.mp3
8.2M	[051] 7.5. Qoqand Massacre.mp3
15M	[052] 7.6. Capitulation.mp3
16M	[053] 7.7. Flight and Entrenchment.mp3
13M	[054] 7.8. Cruelest Months - Spring 1918.mp3
9.4M	[055] 7.9. Czechoslovak Legion Revolt.mp3
30M	[056] 7.10. Non-Coup.mp3
26M	[057] 7.11. Assassination and Near Assassination.mp3
21M	[058] CHAPTER 8. CLASS WAR AND A PARTY-STATE.mp3
17M	[059] 8.1. Whites and Reds, Officers and Grains.mp3
25M	[060] 8.2. More Than a Barge - Stalin in Tsaritsyn (1918).mp3
11M	[061] 8.3. Stalin's Recall and Close Call.mp3
15M	[062] 8.4. a World Turning (November 1918-January 1919).mp3
9.3M	[063] 8.5. Versailles 1919 - the Anomaly.mp3
18M	[064] 8.6. Lightning Rod Commissar.mp3
9.1M	[065] 8.7. Forces of Order.mp3
20M	[066] 8.8. White Offensive of 1919-Fall and Rise of Trotsky.mp3
17M	[067] 8.9. White Failures.mp3
17M	[068] 8.10. Functionaries Shall Inherit the Earth.mp3
16M	[069] CHAPTER 9. VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY.mp3
17M	[070] 9.1. Accidental Federalists.mp3
28M	[071] 9.2. Supremacy in Eastern Europe.mp3
19M	[072] 9.3. Lenin's Flight of Fancy.mp3
21M	[073] 9.4. Peoples of the East.mp3
13M	[074] 9.5. a Central Asian Ark.mp3
12M	[075] 9.6. No Glory.mp3
8.9M	[076] 9.7. Winter of Discontent (1920-21).mp3
13M	[077] 9.8. 'soviets Without Parties'.mp3
8.7M	[078] 9.9. Relations Among Soviet Socialist Republics.mp3
8.6M	[079] 9.10. 'peasant Brest-Litovsk,' Party 'unity'.mp3
14M	[080] 9.11. White Guards, Imperialists, Socialist Revolutionaries.mp3
18M	[081] 9.12. Absorbing Georgian Nationalism.mp3
27M	[082] 9.13. First Soviet Satellite.mp3
38M	[083] PART III COLLISION.mp3
20M	[084] CHAPTER 10. DICTATOR.mp3
12M	[085] 10.1. from Vozdvizhenka to Old Square.mp3
16M	[086] 10.2. Nomenklatura and Conspiracy.mp3
5.8M	[087] 10.3. Znamenka, 23.mp3
14M	[088] 10.4. Lubyanka, 2.mp3
18M	[089] 10.5. Blacksmith Bridge and Hotel Lux.mp3
11M	[090] 10.6. Old Square, 8.mp3
11M	[091] 10.7. Ilinka, 9.mp3
16M	[092] 10.8. 'under Stalin's Wing'.mp3
5.0M	[093] 10.9. Looking for Leverage.mp3
12M	[094] 10.10. Secret Weapon.mp3
27M	[095] 10.11. 'the Point Is About Leadership'.mp3
11M	[096] CHAPTER 11. 'REMOVE STALIN'.mp3
21M	[097] 11.1 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-and a Slap in Tiflis.mp3
5.6M	[098] 11.2. Failed Quest for Economic Dictatorship.mp3
13M	[099] 11.3. Second Stroke.mp3
9.4M	[100] 11.4. First Recognition.mp3
9.5M	[101] 11.5. Suspicious Dictation.mp3
12M	[102] 11.6. Third Stroke and Fake Article.mp3
11M	[103] 11.7. Absent Lenin.mp3
13M	[104] 11.8. Miraculous Dictation.mp3
9.1M	[105] 11.9. Operation Parliament-2 (Soltangalievism).mp3
16M	[106] 11.10. 'cave Meeting'.mp3
8.6M	[107] 11.11. Delirium.mp3
11M	[108] 11.12. Dread Everlasting.mp3
8.7M	[109] 11.13. Humiliation.mp3
9.9M	[110] 11.14. Left Opposition.mp3
27M	[111] 11.15. Confrontation.mp3
9.7M	[112] CHAPTER 12. FAITHFUL PUPIL.mp3
14M	[113] 12.1. Revelation.mp3
18M	[114] 12.2. Political Paralysis Versus Holy Oaths.mp3
12M	[115] 12.3. Leninism.mp3
9.5M	[116] 12.4. 'letter to the Congress'.mp3
14M	[117] 12.5. Fascism's Lessons.mp3
17M	[118] 12.6. Soviet Geopolitics.mp3
17M	[119] 12.7. Brushing Off European Rapprochement.mp3
7.5M	[120] 12.8. a Duumvirate.mp3
25M	[121] 12.9. 'enrich Yourselves'.mp3
6.5M	[122] 12.10. Testament Repudiated.mp3
11M	[123] 12.11. Voroshilov's Ascent.mp3
9.6M	[124] 12.12. Dzierzynski's Muddle.mp3
17M	[125] 12.13. Birthday Denunciations.mp3
7.6M	[126] 12.14. and Now, One.mp3
18M	[127] 12.15. Menacing Turns.mp3
17M	[128] CHAPTER 13. TRIUMPHANT DEBACLE.mp3
13M	[129] 13.1. a Jaunt Through the Caucasus.mp3
11M	[130] 13.2. Ailments Aplenty.mp3
16M	[131] 13.3. Testament, Again.mp3
12M	[132] 13.4. Russia's New Ruler (Eye on America).mp3
12M	[133] 13.5. Grave Digger of the Revolution.mp3
12M	[134] 13.6. Parsing the Strategic Situation.mp3
18M	[135] 13.7. State of Siege.mp3
26M	[136] 13.8. Implosion.mp3
8.7M	[137] 13.9. Terrorism.mp3
9.6M	[138] 13.10. Emperor Has No Clothes.mp3
9.6M	[139] 13.11. About-Face.mp3
15M	[140] 13.12. Theater of the Absurd.mp3
6.3M	[141] 13.13. Franco-Soviet Rift.mp3
11M	[142] 13.14. Final Face-to-Face.mp3
11M	[143] 13.15. Tenth Anniversary - Pretext for Repression.mp3
26M	[144] 13.16. 15th Party Congress (December 2-19, 1927).mp3
4.5M	[145] CHAPTER 14. A TRIP TO SIBERIA.mp3
21M	[146] 14.1. Self-Fulfilling Crisis.mp3
25M	[147] 14.2. Earth-Shattering Speech.mp3
9.8M	[148] 14.3. Exiling the Left, Enacting Leftism.mp3
21M	[149] 14.4. Communist Party on Watch.mp3
7.0M	[150] 14.5. Rykov's Dilemma.mp3
15M	[151] 14.6. a Town Called 'mine Shafts' (Shakhty).mp3
8.4M	[152] 14.7. Foreign 'economic' Intervention.mp3
12M	[153] 14.8. Inciting Class Warfare.mp3
16M	[154] 14.9. Tactical Retreat (April 1928).mp3
11M	[155] 14.10. Show Trial.mp3
13M	[156] 14.11. Bully Pulpit (May-June 1928).mp3
16M	[157] 14.12. Second Tactical Retreat (July 1928 Plenum).mp3
14M	[158] 14.13. Intrigue of Intrigues.mp3
21M	[159] 14.14. Future Bricks, Present Malevolence.mp3
49M	[160] Coda - If Stalin Had Died.mp3
3.2M	[161] End.mp3
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