Scorched Earth: Stalin's Reign of Terror

by Jörg Baberowski

German scholar J rg Baberowski is one of the world's leading experts on the Stalin era, but his work has seldom been translated into English. This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad violence with which Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts Stalinism as a cruel and deliberate attack on Russian society, driven by "totalitarian ambitions" and the goal of modernizing and rationalizing a backward people. Baberowski takes a twofold approach, emphasizing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300136986
• ISBN13: 9780300136982
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.3"