Stalin in October: The Man Who Missed the Revolution

by Professor Robert M. Slusser

Originally published in 1987. In March 1917 young Joseph Stalin, already a high-ranking Bolshevik, returned from Siberian exile in search of greatness and power. But his activities during the months leading up to the October Revolution were full of blunders and misjudgments—failures that in later years Stalin obliterated from the historical record. Stalin in October reassembles the history of 1917 and explains why, on the eve of the revolutionaries' seizure of power, Stalin seemingly dropped out of the picture. "He would always be dogged," Slusser writes, "by a nagging sense of having somehow missed the revolution." The lingering shame was crucial to Stalin's development into a Soviet dictator.

296 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1987

Reviews

[Dimitrii Ivanov]

Кремлинологическая версия истории периода от Февраля до Октября, в приоритете - истоки Политбюро, личные отношения между вождями. Язвительный комментарий к русскому переводу по фактическим неточностям.