02761oam 2200529I 450 991015471020332120230809233710.01-315-52765-01-315-52764-210.4324/9781315527659 (CKB)4340000000022956(MiAaPQ)EBC4766999(OCoLC)965826505(EXLCZ)99434000000002295620180706d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierStalin from the Caucasus to the Kremlin /Christopher ReadLondon ;New York :Routledge,2017.1 online resource (362 pages) mapRoutledge historical biographies0-415-51949-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.From Djugashvili to Stalin -- The grey blur : Stalin in revolution and civil war -- Filling Lenin's shoes -- Storming fortresses -- Nine circles of hell -- Stalin, the Soviet Union and the world in the 1930s -- The tenth circle of hell : invasion, occupation, victory : war without limits -- World stage, final act -- Stalin's afterlife : an inconclusive conclusion."Christopher Read examines Stalin's contribution to and impact on Russian and world events in the first half of the twentieth century. The biography brings together the avalanche of sources and scholarship which followed the collapse of the system Stalin constructed, including the often neglected writings and speeches of Stalin himself. In addition to a detailed narrative and analysis of Stalin's rule, chapters also cover his early years and humble beginnings in a small town at a remote outpost of the Russian Empire, his role in the revolution, his relationships with Lenin, Trotsky and others in the 1920s, and his rise to become one of the most powerful figures in human history. The book closes with an account of Stalin's afterlife and legacy, both in the immediate aftermath of his death and in the decades since"--Provided by publisher.Routledge historical biographies.Heads of stateSoviet UnionBiographyWorld politics1933-1945World politics1945-1955Soviet UnionHistory1925-1953Soviet UnionPolitics and government1936-1953Heads of stateWorld politicsWorld politics947.084/2092BRead Christopher1946-,982004MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154710203321Stalin2241175UNINA04709nam 22006852 450 991078672250332120151005020623.01-139-61107-01-107-23757-21-139-62223-41-107-25493-01-139-61293-X1-139-34383-11-139-61665-X1-139-62595-0(CKB)2670000000353163(EBL)1099936(OCoLC)843191689(SSID)ssj0000871458(PQKBManifestationID)11462297(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871458(PQKBWorkID)10822434(PQKB)10486818(UkCbUP)CR9781139343831(MiAaPQ)EBC1099936(Au-PeEL)EBL1099936(CaPaEBR)ebr10695363(CaONFJC)MIL485884(EXLCZ)99267000000035316320141103d2013|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEvaluating empire and confronting colonialism in eighteenth-century Britain /Jack P. Greene[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2013.1 online resource (xx, 385 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).1-107-68298-3 1-107-03055-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue : "Scene of a foul transaction" : the languages of empire and the Carib War in St. Vincent -- "The principal cornucopia of Great-Britain's wealth" : the languages of commerce, liberty, security, and maritime supremacy and the celebration of empire -- Outposts of "loose vagrant people" : the language of alterity in the construction of empire -- "A fabric at once the dread and wonder of the world" : the languages of imperial grandeur, liberty, commerce, humanity, and justice and the American challenge to empire -- Arenas of "Asiatic plunder" : the languages of humanity and justice and the excesses of empire in India -- Sites of Creolean despotism : the languages of humanity and justice and the critique of colonial slavery and the African slave trade -- "A fruitless, bloody, wasting war" : the languages of imperial grandeur, liberty, humanity, and commerce in the American conflict -- "This voraginous gulph of Hibernian dependence" : the languages of oppression, corruption, justice, liberty, and humanity and the identification of imperial excesses in Ireland -- A "shadow of our former glory"? : The discussion of empire in the wake of American secession -- Epilogue : "Against every principle of justice, humanity, and whatever is allowed to be right among mankind" : standards of humanity and the evaluation of empire.This volume comprehensively examines how metropolitan Britons spoke and wrote about the British Empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. The work argues that following several decades of largely uncritical celebration of the empire as a vibrant commercial entity that had made Britain prosperous and powerful, a growing familiarity with the character of overseas territories and their inhabitants during and after the Seven Years' War produced a substantial critique of empire. This critique evolved out of a widespread revulsion against the behaviours exhibited by Britons overseas and built on a language of 'otherness' that metropolitans had used since the beginning of overseas expansion to describe its participants, the societies and polities that Britons abroad constructed in their new habitats. It used the languages of humanity and justice as standards to evaluate and condemn the behaviours of both overseas Britons and subaltern people in the British Empire, whether in India, the Americas, Africa or Ireland.Evaluating Empire & Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century BritainImperialismPublic opinionHistory18th centuryDiscourse analysisHistory18th centuryGreat BritainColoniesHistory18th centuryGreat BritainColoniesPublic opinionHistoryImperialismPublic opinionHistoryDiscourse analysisHistory325/.34109033HIS015000bisacshGreene Jack P.213282UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910786722503321Evaluating empire and confronting colonialism in eighteenth-century Britain3799998UNINA