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 top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band seizes control of the country in the aftermath of total world war, the former seminarian ruthlessly dominates the new regime until he stands as absolute ruler of a vast and terrible state apparatus, with dominion over Eurasia. While still building his power base within the Bolshevik dictatorship, he embarks upon the greatest gamble of his political life and the largest program of social reengineering ever attempted: the collectivization of all agriculture and industry across one sixth of the earth. Millions will die, and many more millions will suffer, but the man will push through to the end against all resistance and doubts. Where did such power come from? In Stalin, Stephen Kotkin offers a biograph
书名 ： The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volumes 4-6) 作者 ： Edward Gibbon , Hugh Trevor-Roper 页数: 2078页 ISBN: 9780679435938 出版社 : Everyman's Library; 第 Box 版 商品重量 : 2.32 kilograms 装帧 ： 精装 内容 介绍 吉本的《罗马帝国衰亡史》是一部卷帙浩繁的巨著。全书6卷，凡71章，120多万字。它大体可分成两部分：一到四卷为一部分（1-47章），这一部分，作者在简略回顾公元98-180年间罗马帝国的历史以后，主要记述从公元180-641年，约近500年间的史事。五、六两卷为二部分（48-71章），记述公元641-1453年土耳其人攻占君士坦丁堡，拜占廷帝国灭亡为止的800多年间的史事。全书包括后期罗马帝国和整个拜占廷帝国的历史事件，称得上是一部体大思精的通史之作。 罗马帝国衰亡史（《The History of The Decline and Fall
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