Stalin, Volume II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 By: Stephen Kotkin [Audiobook]

Author: Stephen Kotkin
Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Pulitzer Prize finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler’s Germany that is the signal event of modern world history.

When we left Stalin at the end of Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, it was 1928, and he had finally climbed the mountaintop and achieved dictatorial power of the Soviet empire. The vastest peasant economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity, whatever it took. What it took, or what Stalin believed it took, was the most relentless campaign of shock industrialization the world has ever seen.

This is the story of the five-year plans, the new factory towns, and the integration of an entire system of penal labor into the larger economy. With the Great Depression throwing global capital into crisis, the Soviet Union’s New Man looked like nothing so much as the man of the future. As the shadows of the ’30’s deepen, Stalin’s drive to militarize Soviet society takes on increasing urgency, and the ambition of Nazi Germany becomes the predominant geopolitical reality he faces when Hitler claims that communism is a global “Judeo-Bolshevik” conspiracy to bring the Slavic race to power.

But just because they’re out to get you doesn’t mean you’re not paranoid. Stalin’s paranoia is increasingly one of the most horrible facts of life for his entire country. Stalin’s obsessions drive him to violently purge almost a million people, including military leadership, diplomatic corps, and intelligence apparatus, to say nothing of a generation of artistic talent. And then came the pact that shocked the world and demoralized leftists everywhere: Stalin’s pact with Hitler in 1939, the carve-up of Poland, and Stalin’s utter inability to see Hitler’s buildup to the invasion of the USSR.

Yet for all that, in just 12 years of total power, Stalin has taken this country from a peasant economy to a formidable modern war machine that rivaled anything else in the world. When the invasion came, Stalin wasn’t ready, but his country would prove to be prepared. That is a dimension of the Stalin story that has never adequately been reckoned with before, and it looms large here. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler: 1929-1941 is, like its predecessor, nothing less than a history of the world from Stalin’s desk. It is also, like its predecessor, a landmark achievement in the annals of its field and in the biographer’s art.

508K	[001] Title.mp3
700K	[002] Quotes.mp3
7.7M	[003] Preface.mp3
12M	[004] PART I - EQUAL TO THE MYTH.mp3
4.3M	[005] CHAPTER 1 - TRIUMPH OF THE WILL.mp3
6.0M	[006] 1. The Victim.mp3
3.3M	[007] 2. No Pity.mp3
2.0M	[008] 3. Geopolitical Dilemma.mp3
2.3M	[009] 4. Populism.mp3
2.1M	[010] 5. 'Social Fascists'.mp3
2.8M	[011] 6. Advanced Technology, Arrests.mp3
3.5M	[012] 7. Tight Leash.mp3
4.2M	[013] 8. The General Secretary's Wife - A Rightist.mp3
3.0M	[014] 9. Tremors.mp3
2.3M	[015] 10. A Great Break.mp3
3.5M	[016] 11. Show Of Force.mp3
3.4M	[017] 12. Everywhere, Victory.mp3
1.9M	[018] 13. Close To The Masses (Metaphysically).mp3
3.2M	[019] 14. Liquidation Of The Kulaks As A Class.mp3
3.0M	[020] 15. Builders Of The New World.mp3
4.0M	[021] 16. Wrathful Spring.mp3
2.3M	[022] 17. Propaganda And Hunger.mp3
2.8M	[023] 18. Luck Beyond Belief.mp3
5.2M	[024] 19. Laughter, Applause.mp3
6.3M	[025] 20. An Anticapitalist System In Embryo.mp3
7.0M	[026] 21. Conspiracy Of Logic.mp3
2.7M	[027] 22. Run The Government....mp3
6.1M	[028] 23. Fiction.mp3
4.8M	[029] 24. Selling Out To The Capitalists.mp3
2.4M	[030] 25. Mystery Man.mp3
8.5M	[031] 26. Stout Inner Circle.mp3
2.4M	[032] CHAPTER 2 - APOCALYPSE.mp3
5.0M	[033] 1. Bully's Mind-set.mp3
3.6M	[034] 2. Drought And Regime Sabotage.mp3
3.4M	[035] 3. 'Springtime'.mp3
3.0M	[036] 4. Upheaval.mp3
4.2M	[037] 5. Holiday Mailbag.mp3
3.9M	[038] 6. Manchurian Surprise.mp3
3.3M	[039] 7. Global Earthquake.mp3
2.4M	[040] 8. The Struggle Against Kulak Sabotage.mp3
3.9M	[041] 9. Quest For Nonaggression.mp3
2.7M	[042] 10. Concealed Militarization.mp3
2.6M	[043] 11. Ominous Signs.mp3
3.3M	[044] 12. Pressure For Retreat.mp3
3.6M	[045] 13. Grudging Concessions, Private Apology.mp3
6.0M	[046] 14. Panic Around Him.mp3
3.1M	[047] 15. Summer Doom.mp3
4.6M	[048] 16. 'Gravedigger Of The Revolution And Of Russia'.mp3
2.9M	[049] 17. The Four Horsemen.mp3
7.4M	[050] 18. A Personal Blow.mp3
3.2M	[051] 19. Enemy With A Party Card.mp3
5.5M	[052] 20. Sharpening The Class Struggle.mp3
3.3M	[053] 21. Geopolitical Catastrophe.mp3
3.4M	[054] 22. Radical Realignments.mp3
4.6M	[055] 23. Education Of A True Believer.mp3
3.9M	[056] 24. Consequences.mp3
6.7M	[057] 25. Stalin's Famine.mp3
3.3M	[058] CHAPTER 3 - VICTORY.mp3
3.3M	[059] 1. Pharaoh.mp3
3.5M	[060] 2. Golden Fleece.mp3
3.9M	[061] 3. 'I Am Koba, You Are Lakoba'.mp3
3.7M	[062] 4. 'A Good Organizer'.mp3
2.7M	[063] 5. Near-fatal Launch.mp3
3.1M	[064] 6. German Gambit.mp3
4.0M	[065] 7. American Gambit.mp3
2.0M	[066] 8. Lamas And Wolves.mp3
4.5M	[067] 9. Whites And Reds.mp3
5.2M	[068] 10. Human Souls.mp3
2.2M	[069] 11. Who Would Write The Biography....mp3
4.0M	[070] 12. 'Congress Of Victors'.mp3
3.1M	[071] 13. Rudely Interrupted.mp3
3.5M	[072] 14. Kirov And Others Acclaim The Leader.mp3
2.0M	[073] 15. Mere Secretary.mp3
6.1M	[074] 16. Private Life.mp3
3.6M	[075] 17. Common Enemies.mp3
2.7M	[076] 18. Poet To Poet.mp3
2.3M	[077] 19. A New Authority.mp3
2.1M	[078] 20. Bungling.mp3
4.7M	[079] 21. Long Knives.mp3
2.1M	[080] 22. Strengthening Socialist Legality.mp3
2.3M	[081] 23. Artists And The State.mp3
3.6M	[082] 24. Writing History.mp3
4.7M	[083] 25. Extravaganza.mp3
6.2M	[084] 26. Fairy Tale.mp3
5.7M	[085] CHAPTER 4 - TERRORISM.mp3
4.0M	[086] 1. Kirov And Chapayev.mp3
2.0M	[087] 2. Under The Gun.mp3
4.2M	[088] 3. Mongols And Kirov.mp3
4.8M	[089] 4. A Terrorist.mp3
6.6M	[090] 5. Historic Opportunity.mp3
5.2M	[091] 6. Cavalcade.mp3
3.8M	[092] 7. Farewell.mp3
3.5M	[093] 8. The Investigation.mp3
2.5M	[094] 9. First Trial.mp3
2.5M	[095] 10. Rewriting The Caucasus.mp3
5.2M	[096] 11. Laughter.mp3
3.5M	[097] 12. The Second Trial.mp3
5.7M	[098] 13. Nazism's Windfall.mp3
3.0M	[099] 14. Little Blackberry.mp3
3.5M	[100] 15. Something To Talk About.mp3
3.7M	[101] 16. 'Formers'.mp3
2.4M	[102] 17. Foreign Models.mp3
4.6M	[103] 18. Take Care.mp3
5.4M	[104] 19. Joyride.mp3
3.4M	[105] CHAPTER 5 - A GREAT POWER.mp3
4.2M	[106] 1. The Hitler Problem.mp3
3.4M	[107] 2. Strange People.mp3
3.5M	[108] 3. Leverage.mp3
3.8M	[109] 4. Staging Grounds.mp3
3.8M	[110] 5. 'Cadres Decide Everything'.mp3
3.4M	[111] 6. Revealed Preferences.mp3
2.9M	[112] 7. Connecting The Dots.mp3
1.5M	[113] 8. Wishful Thinking.mp3
3.3M	[114] 9. French Connections.mp3
2.4M	[115] 10. Profligacy.mp3
7.4M	[116] 11. Antifascist Front.mp3
3.0M	[117] 12. Holiday Commands.mp3
3.2M	[118] 13. Fall Maneuvers.mp3
2.6M	[119] 14. Stratification.mp3
2.5M	[120] 15. Foreign Policy Revealed.mp3
2.7M	[121] 16. Keke.mp3
4.1M	[122] 17. Life Becomes More Joyous.mp3
3.7M	[123] 18. Diplomatic Delusions.mp3
4.4M	[124] 19. Smashed Pipe.mp3
3.0M	[125] 20. 'Interesting'.mp3
2.2M	[126] 21. 'Friendship Of Peoples'.mp3
4.7M	[127] 22. Muddle.mp3
2.5M	[128] 23. American Mirror.mp3
4.5M	[129] 24. Hitler, Again.mp3
2.8M	[130] 25. Charismatic Power.mp3
2.7M	[131] 26. Blinders.mp3
11M	[132] 27. Cultural Triumphs, Trotskyites.mp3
14M	[133] PART II - TERROR AS STATECRAFT.mp3
5.8M	[134] CHAPTER 6 - ON A BLUFF.mp3
3.7M	[135] 1. Colonial Experience.mp3
3.4M	[136] 2. Great Power Machinations.mp3
2.1M	[137] 3. Fabricating A 'United' Center.mp3
3.4M	[138] 4. Trying To Stem Revolution.mp3
2.7M	[139] 5. The Trotsky Challenge.mp3
4.2M	[140] 6. Dictator's Dilemma.mp3
3.9M	[141] 7. Improvising A Course.mp3
3.4M	[142] 8. Farce.mp3
5.0M	[143] 9. Showcase Trial.mp3
3.7M	[144] 10. Forcing Mass Hysteria.mp3
3.0M	[145] 11. 'Greetings'.mp3
3.3M	[146] 12. Sudden Decision.mp3
3.9M	[147] 13. Different Shows.mp3
2.5M	[148] 14. Operation X.mp3
3.9M	[149] 15. Nkvd Coup.mp3
4.4M	[150] 16. Arming Spain, Eyeing Nazi Germany.mp3
3.9M	[151] 17. Happy Birthday, Sergo.mp3
3.3M	[152] 18. No Pasarán!.mp3
4.3M	[153] 19. Socialist 'Democracy'.mp3
3.9M	[154] 20. Everything Unravels.mp3
3.4M	[155] 21. Enigmatic Plenum.mp3
4.5M	[156] 22. Kidnap.mp3
3.6M	[157] 23. China In The Balance.mp3
2.9M	[158] 24. 'Kautsky'.mp3
3.5M	[159] 25. What Might Have Been.mp3
4.4M	[160] 26. 'Poppycock'.mp3
7.3M	[161] 27. Noisy New Trial.mp3
4.9M	[162] CHAPTER 7 - ENEMIES HUNTING ENEMIES.mp3
6.5M	[163] 1. Bedfellows And Strangers.mp3
5.5M	[164] 2. War Of Attrition.mp3
4.2M	[165] 3. Extirpation.mp3
3.2M	[166] 4. 'Truly A Historic Plenum!'.mp3
6.2M	[167] 5. Self-slaughterhouse.mp3
5.6M	[168] 6. Deft Maneuvers.mp3
5.9M	[169] 7. Popular Front On The Right, Civil War On The Left.mp3
3.5M	[170] 8. Elusive Germany.mp3
3.3M	[171] 9. A Despot's Realm.mp3
3.5M	[172] 10. Hints.mp3
2.9M	[173] 11. May Days.mp3
3.9M	[174] 12. Assassinations.mp3
5.7M	[175] 13. Stalin's Tukhachevsky Plot.mp3
2.3M	[176] 14. Terrorizing The Nkvd.mp3
2.1M	[177] 15. West On The Wane.mp3
4.5M	[178] 16. Stalin's Attempt At Explanation.mp3
2.6M	[179] 17. Digesting The Undigestible.mp3
6.0M	[180] 18. In Camera.mp3
4.1M	[181] 19. Breaking Klim.mp3
7.0M	[182] 20. Fifth Column Story Line.mp3
4.3M	[183] CHAPTER 8 - 'WHAT WENT ON IN NO. 1'S BRAIN...'.mp3
4.1M	[184] 1. A Teacher And A Pupil.mp3
3.9M	[185] 2. Communism's Ease Of Mass Murder.mp3
4.7M	[186] 3. Stalin And The State.mp3
5.1M	[187] 4. We Are The Enemy.mp3
4.2M	[188] 5. Nests Of Spies.mp3
11M	[189] 6. 'Anti-Soviet Elements'.mp3
2.4M	[190] 7. Annihilating Military Intelligence.mp3
6.5M	[191] 8. Far Eastern 'Imperialist War'.mp3
1.5M	[192] 9. The Other Front.mp3
3.5M	[193] 10. Frontline Defense.mp3
3.4M	[194] 11. Leaders Come And Go.mp3
4.7M	[195] 12. Peter And Soviet Patriotism.mp3
3.8M	[196] 13. Loose-tongued Self-portrait.mp3
2.0M	[197] 14. Postscript.mp3
1.7M	[198] 15. Sticking With Chiang.mp3
3.3M	[199] 16. Celebration Amid Death.mp3
3.6M	[200] 17. Red Army Versus Wehrmacht.mp3
3.4M	[201] 18. Indistinguishable Enemies.mp3
4.6M	[202] 19. Third (And Final) Public Trial.mp3
4.8M	[203] 20. Failures Of Contemporary Kremlinology.mp3
3.2M	[204] 21. The Logic Of A Warped Mind.mp3
6.3M	[205] 22. 'Spies'.mp3
4.9M	[206] 23. Synopsis.mp3
3.1M	[207] 24. Noncauses.mp3
5.9M	[208] 25. A Theory And Practice Of Rule.mp3
8.2M	[209] CHAPTER 9 - MISSING PIECE.mp3
4.8M	[210] 1. 'Turn The Enemies Of Socialism To Ashes!'.mp3
4.0M	[211] 2. A Night At The Opera.mp3
5.1M	[212] 3. Powers Of Extradition.mp3
2.6M	[213] 4. A Despot's Preferences.mp3
3.1M	[214] 5. A Mini Supreme Leader.mp3
2.5M	[215] 6. Supplicant.mp3
3.7M	[216] 7. Carnage And Triumph.mp3
3.1M	[217] 8. The Reckoning.mp3
4.4M	[218] 9. A Favorite For Ukraine.mp3
3.9M	[219] 10. Nkvd Degradation.mp3
5.4M	[220] 11. A Man Alone.mp3
9.5M	[221] 12. Stalin Manufactures A Top Foreign Agent.mp3
4.1M	[222] 13. Windfall For Japanese Intelligence.mp3
8.7M	[223] 14. 'The Inevitable War' (Nearly).mp3
5.9M	[224] 15. First Deputy Nkvd Ussr.mp3
6.3M	[225] 16. Dilemmas.mp3
9.8M	[226] 17. Beria Meets Blyukher.mp3
38M	[227] PART III - THREE-CARD MONTE.mp3
3.4M	[228] CHAPTER 10 - HAMMER.mp3
6.7M	[229] 1. Personalities, Regimes.mp3
3.0M	[230] 2. Beria's Takeover.mp3
6.4M	[231] 3. Buck-passing.mp3
4.5M	[232] 4. Music And Torture.mp3
4.5M	[233] 5. Complicating Factors.mp3
1.9M	[234] 6. Pursuing Rewards.mp3
2.3M	[235] 7. Absent Father.mp3
3.4M	[236] 8. 18Th Party Congress.mp3
3.9M	[237] 9. The Terror's Promotions.mp3
1.9M	[238] 10. New Inner Circle.mp3
3.1M	[239] 11. Socialist Realism.mp3
3.8M	[240] 12. Hitler Intrudes.mp3
3.7M	[241] 13. Fixation.mp3
8.5M	[242] 14. A 'Guarantee' For Poland.mp3
6.0M	[243] 15. A Belated Demise.mp3
4.8M	[244] 16. Triple Alliance Proposal.mp3
4.0M	[245] 17. Seizing Foreign Affairs.mp3
4.5M	[246] 18. A Routed, Transformed Commissariat.mp3
4.2M	[247] 19. A Polish Hinge....mp3
2.8M	[248] 20. Visions Of A Deal.mp3
3.6M	[249] 21. Negotiations, Of A Sort.mp3
4.2M	[250] 22. Ultimatum.mp3
5.9M	[251] 23. Stalemate.mp3
3.2M	[252] CHAPTER 11 - PACT.mp3
3.3M	[253] 1. Far Eastern Skirmish.mp3
2.5M	[254] 2. German Cul-de-sac.mp3
3.7M	[255] 3. No Answers.mp3
3.5M	[256] 4. War.mp3
4.3M	[257] 5. Summer Of Indeterminacy.mp3
3.3M	[258] 6. Baltic Flip.mp3
5.1M	[259] 7. Played For A Fool.mp3
6.9M	[260] 8. The Hitler Card.mp3
7.2M	[261] 9. Windfall.mp3
4.5M	[262] 10. Crushing Military Display.mp3
5.7M	[263] 11. Shock Waves.mp3
3.6M	[264] 12. Strategic Choices.mp3
4.6M	[265] 13. More Surprises.mp3
7.0M	[266] 14. The Distrust.mp3
6.2M	[267] 15. Who Wants War....mp3
7.0M	[268] 16. Stalin's Sudetenland.mp3
2.5M	[269] 17. Political Economy.mp3
6.2M	[270] 18. Friendship And The Border.mp3
8.1M	[271] 19. Kindred Interests.mp3
6.2M	[272] CHAPTER 12 - SMASHED PIG.mp3
3.4M	[273] 1. Diplomacy, Of A Sort.mp3
4.5M	[274] 2. No Apparent Wiggle Room.mp3
5.5M	[275] 3. 'Minimal' Demands.mp3
4.5M	[276] 4. Impasse.mp3
2.7M	[277] 5. Persistence.mp3
6.1M	[278] 6. Credibility Gap.mp3
3.3M	[279] 7. Wishful Thinking.mp3
4.0M	[280] 8. People's Finland.mp3
4.3M	[281] 9. Military Dilettante.mp3
4.3M	[282] 10. Miscalculation Exposed.mp3
7.0M	[283] 11. Birthday Bash.mp3
2.9M	[284] 12. Course Correction.mp3
4.2M	[285] 13. Prot├ęg├ęs.mp3
4.4M	[286] 14. Suspicions.mp3
7.4M	[287] 15. Massacres.mp3
6.6M	[288] 16. Revelation.mp3
2.1M	[289] 17. Fatherliness.mp3
5.5M	[290] 18. A Reckoning.mp3
4.3M	[291] 19. Learning.mp3
7.0M	[292] 20. Red Army Resurrection.mp3
5.8M	[293] CHAPTER 13 - GREED.mp3
8.3M	[294] 1. New Realities.mp3
4.9M	[295] 2. A New Union.mp3
3.2M	[296] 3. Clash.mp3
6.9M	[297] 4. Toying With The British.mp3
3.6M	[298] 5. Incoherence.mp3
2.4M	[299] 6. A Despot Meets His Limits.mp3
5.8M	[300] 7. Stumped, Wrathful, Restless.mp3
3.9M	[301] 8. Misplaced Joy.mp3
3.7M	[302] 9. Enemies Recast.mp3
3.8M	[303] 10. Ambiguities.mp3
2.7M	[304] 11. Tripartite Relief.mp3
8.1M	[305] 12. Hitler's Latin Frustrations And Balkan Ambitions.mp3
4.3M	[306] 13. Message From Berlin.mp3
3.4M	[307] 14. Soviet-british Feelers.mp3
2.0M	[308] 15. Spies And Fools.mp3
7.5M	[309] 16. Molotov-hitler.mp3
3.6M	[310] 17. The Nonpivot.mp3
4.8M	[311] 18. Bulgarian Gambit.mp3
4.0M	[312] 19. Reading Hitler's Intentions.mp3
8.5M	[313] 20. Supreme Cunning....mp3
3.6M	[314] CHAPTER 14 - FEAR.mp3
5.8M	[315] 1. Id├ęes Fixes.mp3
3.2M	[316] 2. Seeking Clarification.mp3
3.1M	[317] 3. War Games.mp3
2.6M	[318] 4. Anxieties.mp3
4.9M	[319] 5. Hitler's Grand Strategy.mp3
5.3M	[320] 6. Judo.mp3
7.7M	[321] 7. Warnings Intensify.mp3
3.5M	[322] 8. Responding To The German Buildup.mp3
3.6M	[323] 9. Inhibitions.mp3
5.0M	[324] 10. Balkan Treachery.mp3
2.5M	[325] 11. Churchill To Stalin.mp3
2.7M	[326] 12. Coup De Main.mp3
3.2M	[327] 13. Master Of Ceremonies.mp3
1.9M	[328] 14. America's Warnings.mp3
3.3M	[329] 15. Attempted Deterrence.mp3
4.1M	[330] 16. Cacophony.mp3
5.3M	[331] 17. No Army Is Invincible.mp3
5.0M	[332] 18. Exchange Of Letters....mp3
5.4M	[333] 19. Sensational Mission.mp3
4.9M	[334] 20. Preemption Denied.mp3
4.0M	[335] 21. Disinformation, Confirmed.mp3
3.6M	[336] 22. Stream Of Visitors.mp3
5.7M	[337] 23. Pressure.mp3
4.5M	[338] 24. Desperation.mp3
5.2M	[339] 25. Doom Closes In.mp3
32M	[340] 26. Coda - Little Corner, Saturday, June 21, 1941.mp3
4.6M	[341] 27. Soviet Administrative Structure.mp3
620K	[342] END.mp3
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