Second, the author has worked with party, army and state archives previously unseen by stalins western biographers. Triumph and tragedy new edition by dmitri volkogonov, harold shukman isbn. Volkogonov, whose father was murdered in a purge that placed the family under a political cloud, nonetheless rose through army ranks to become. The jewish role in the bolshevik revolution and russias early soviet regime. Dmitri was the son of a collective farm manager and a schoolteacher. Soviet russia in the 1930s new york, 1999 does not engage in this debate but proposes a view of the soviet people trying merely to.
Dmitri volkogonov the special assistant to boris yeltsin radically alters the traditional image of lenin with a biography based on secret soviet archives, revealing the founding father as a cruel, totalitarian leader who was responsible for the worst excesses of the soviet state. Triumph and tragedy by volkogonov, dmitri published by grove pr hardcover aa on. Triumph and tragedy after action report, january 2016. Triumph and tragedy full popular dmitri volkogonov, i was so mad stalin. The files of the communist party, the military and the secret police, as well as stalins personal files and library with his.
Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. The eternal revolutionary, free press, simon and schuster, isbn 9780684822938. The jewish role in the bolshevik revolution and russias. Following his great trilogy of biographies of the giants who dominated the history of the soviet union stalin 1991, lenin 1994 and trotsky 1996 dmitri volkogonov delves deeper into the soviet archives to produce new character evaluations and political assessments of the seven leaders who ruled the soviet union from 1917 to 1991. Jul 10, 2011 volkogonov s engaging narrative takes us through the political purges, the meat grinding of russian society, and the elimination of stalin s real or imagined opponents. Stalin and his era the historical journal cambridge core. Stalin and terror, stalin and ideology, and stalin and soviet society. Dimitri volkogonov, general of the soviet army, head of the institute of military history and admirer of gorbachev, has produced the most authoritative biography of stalin we have read so far. Stalinism is the means of governing and related policies implemented from 1927 to 1953 by joseph stalin 18781953. After research in secret soviet archives both before and after the dissolution of the union, he published biographies of joseph stalin. According to the translator and editor, harold shukman, the first researcher to gain access to the secret archives of the soviet state was dmitri volkogonov, who, as the director of the institute of military history and a serving colonel general, had for years.
Triumph and tragedy by dmitri antonovich volkogonov hacienda publishing. Both at the state security committee and at the ussr ministry of internal affairs they told me that they had nothing of the kind. The only thing i can be proud ofthe greatest merit of my lifeis that i was able to fundamentally alter my views. See all 16 formats and editions hide other formats and editions.
As head of the institute of military history of the ussr and general of the soviet army, dmitri volkogonov had access to secret soviet documents not available to other historians up to the time of mikhail gorbachevs glasnost and perestroika. Leon trotsky quotes quotes of leon trotsky poem hunter. Dmitry was the son of a collective farm manager and a schoolteacher. He scoured stalin s personal records and interviewed members of stalin s kremlin staff as well as highranking party officials, top army brass, and others who knew the ruthless leader. This transformation amounted, in the regimes own view, to a revolution, and it cut so deep, or so the official line maintained, that it was equivalent in its consequences to the revolution of october 1917. Kondrashev, and george bailey, battleground berlin. Stalinist policies and ideas that were developed in the soviet union included rapid industrialization, the theory of socialism in one country, a totalitarian state, collectivization of agriculture, a cult of personality and subordination of the interests of foreign communist. The evolution of stalins foreign policy during word war two. For one attempt to overcome the two extreme schools, see kuromiya, how do we know. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise cambridge core to connect with your account.
Offering the first true glimpse of stalin in action, this is the definitive account of the man, the time, and the tragedy. Dmitri volkogonov, chief of the institute of military history under the ussr ministry of defense and author of stalin. The files of the communist party, the military and the secret police, as well as stalin s personal files and library with his. Joseph stalin plunged russia into a barbarous nightmare the likes of which the world has never seen, leaving behind a ravaged nation and a legacy of grief, but no answers.
In 1937 when dmitry was eight, his father was arrested and shot during stalin s purges for being found in possession of a pamphlet by bukharin. The author himself wrote that he didnt consider this book to be a biography but. Setelah meneliti arsiparsip rahasia soviet, ia menerbitkan. Stalin and his era volume 50 issue 3 hiroaki kuromiya. The article asks why, and suggests that the problem. Triumph and tragedy by dmitri volkogonov librarything. According to dmitri volkogonov in stalin triumph and tragedy 1991, the night before stalin became ill, he inquired from beria about the status of the case against the doctors and specifically about the interrogation of professor vinogradov. Read trotsky eternal revolutionary by dmitri volkogonov available from rakuten kobo. Dmitri volkogonov began his career as a highranking soviet military officer who specialised in psychological warfare. Dmitri volkogonov, although it was actually written prior to his lenin. Minister of state security lavrenti beria replied, apart from his other unfavorable qualities. Stalin, joseph, 18791953 heads of state soviet union biography soviet union history.
Dmitri volkogonov project gutenberg selfpublishing. Stalin was the absolute dictator of the soviet union between 1929 and his death in 1953. Together with lenin, trotsky was the most charismatic and dominating figure of the russian revolution. Dmitri volkogonov wikipedia bahasa indonesia, ensiklopedia.
Military officer, defence advisor, writer and historian. Stalins great terror, it has led to heated controversy. Stalin was brutal, no doubt, but trotsky would have been incomparably worse, and it remains a tragedy of history that stalins ambitions got the better of him and he forced hitlers hand. Triumph and tragedy by dmitri volkogonov online at alibris.
His major political accomplishment was to convert communism in the soviet union from what had been a relatively egalitarian. Triumph and tragedy by dmitri antonovich volkogonov hacienda publishing 2015. Triumph and tragedy by dmitri volkogonov, paperback. Second, the author has worked with party, army and state archives previously unseen by stalin s western. Dmitri volkogonov, general, historiador y politico ruso. Dmitri volkogonov was a career officer in the soviet red army who, until his death in 1995, played an integral role in the demilitarization of russia as boris yeltsins most senior military advisor and as a deputy in the. As propaganda chief of the soviet red army and later chairman of the russian archives declassifying commision, general dmitri volkogonov enjoyed unparalleled access to the vast secret archives of the former soviet. Possible ex library copy, thatll have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Our paths diverged so long ago and so far, and in my eyes he is so much the instrument of historical forces that are alien and hostile to me, that my feelings towards. Accessories such as cd, codes, toys, may not be included. Dmitri volkogonov was born march 22, 1928 in chita, 1 eastern siberia. Dmitri volkogonov began his career as a highranking soviet military officer. Triumph and tragedy dmitri volkogonov ebook download, read online stalin.
A sovietnazi alliance could have finally ended the british empire and prevented zionism. Triumph and tragedy by volkogonov, dmitri published by grove pr hardcover. Stalins mysterious death surgical neurology international. Dmitry volkogonov was born march 22, 1928 in chita, eastern siberia. Triumph and tragedy by dmitri volkogonov, czingiz ajtmatow contributor, anatolij latyszew contributor, boris bolotin contributor, jurij borisow contributor 11 more, aleksandr bowin contributor, aleksiej choriew contributor, michail hefter contributor, ernst henry contributor, roy miedwiediew contributor. For ten years general dmitri volkogonov studied military records, party arch. In this unrelenting biography, former soviet colonel general volkogonov mines archives still closed to historians, interviews eyewitnessesand presents perhaps the most intimate look to date at stalins monstrousness and his nations complicity. Triumph and tragedy by the former soviet general dmitri volkogonov tries to give us the answer to this question, examining the path to power, personality cult and political invulnerability of one of the most gruesome dictators in history. Triumph and tragedy by dmitri antonovich volkogonov. Destroyer of nations, simon sebag montefiore young stalin and the court of the red tsar, dmitri volkogonov stalin. Triumph and tragedy by volkogonov, dmitri published.
May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. First is its author, the son of a stalin purge victim but himself once a seemingly orthodox colonel general among the militarys political commissars and, more lately, a radical critic of the soviet military and a yeltsin confidant. In this capacity, ulrikh served as the presiding judge at many of the major show trials of the great purges in the soviet union. In the night of july 1617, 1918, a squad of bolshevik secret police murdered russias last emperor, tsar nicholas ii, along with his wife, tsaritsa alexandra, their 14yearold son, tsarevich alexis, and their four daughters.