Titlebook: Stalin; Man and Ruler Robert H. McNeal Book 1988 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1988 Europe.history.modern

装饰

Kulaks,rsonal life. He had been impoverished for his first forty-odd years. At the end of the civil war his run-down physical condition required an extended rest-cure, which, along with a more settled life, seems to have done him a lot of good. Up until this time photographs show him as wiry, even undernou

保留

Builder,socialist society. While sharing this concensus, Stalin did not distinguish himself as an early or emphatic advocate of rapid industrial growth, once pre-war levels of production had been achieved in 1926. In that year he even opposed a proposal to undertake construction of a huge dam on the Dnieper

Oafishness

Interlocking

Yezhovshchina,estion. One might argue that his conduct for many years previous would justify the diagnosis of insanity, but it is hard to sustain this opinion unless one considers the mainstream of Soviet Communism up to that point to have been mad. Stalin succeeded in making himself the leader of this movement b

cumber

REP

War,asion when he addressed the German ambassador. When the Japanese foreign minister departed from Moscow after signing a treaty with the USSR in April 1941, Stalin emphasized the importance of the agreement by seeing him off at the railway station. Also present was the German ambassador. Stalin sought

磨坊