General Information

Author/Creator

Antonov-Ovseenko, Anton, 1920-2013

Language

English.

Published

New York : Harper & Row, 1981.

Physical Description

xviii, 374 p., [16] p. of plates : ports. ; 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

'Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko is truly a child of the Bolshevik Revolution (and its traumatic outcome). His father, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, led the Bolshevik storming of the Winter Palace in October 1917 and went on to become a famous Soviet military leader, political figure, diplomat. He was finally killed in Stalin's purge of the late thirties (...) Now his son, Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, almost totally blind and a survivor of many years in Stalin's prisons and concentration camps. tells the story of Stalin from personal experience (...) A professional historian since he was freed in the 1950s, the author has made use of family connections and other special circumstances to get access to previously unknown sources--some obviously high-ranking--and to personal testimonies on his subject. He has unearthed a wealth of new and startling information about Stalin and his long. despotic rule--Stalin's rise to dictatorship, hos private life, his brutal assault on the peasants during collectivization, his plotting of the Kirov assassination, the great terror of the 1930s,the actual number of his millions of victims, the catastrophic pact with Hitler and subsequent failure to prepare for the German invasionin 1941, his last years as a virtual god, and, finally, his bizarre death'--publisher

Subjects

Subject

Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953.

Heads of state > Soviet Union > Biography.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko ; translated from the Russian by George Saunders ; with an introduction by Stephen F. Cohen.

Note

'First published in the Russian language in the United States by Chekhov Publishing Corporation'.

Library Special Collection

HU OSA 300 - RFE/RL collection

Donation of Anatole Shub

ISBN

0060101482

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	947.084/20924 ANT		Reference	-
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	947.084/20924 ANT		General Stacks	-

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