In Raised under Stalin, Seth Bernstein shows how Stalin’s regime provided young people with opportunities as members of the Young Communist League or Komsomol even as it surrounded them with violence, shaping socialist youth culture and socialism more broadly through the threat and experience of war. Informed by declassified materials from post-Soviet archives, as well as films...(展开全部)

Stalin remains one of the creators of our world - like Hitler, the personification of evil. Yet Stalin hid his past and remains mysterious. This enthralling biography that reads like a thriller finally unveils the secret but extraordinary journey of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar. What forms such a merciless psychopath and consummate politician? Was he illeg...(展开全部)

A revelatory account that finally unveils the shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler’s son who became the Red Tsar—the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil. What makes a Stalin? What formed this merciless psychopath who was, as well, a consummate politician, the dynamic world statesman who helped create and industriali...(展开全部)

Stalin remains one of the creators of our world - like Hitler, the personification of evil. Yet Stalin hid his past and remains mysterious. This enthralling biography that reads like a thriller finally unveils the secret but extraordinary journey of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar. What forms such a merciless psychopath and consummate politician? Was he illeg...(展开全部)

Based on ten years' astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy became a student priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary, and the merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image: How Stalin became Stalin.

Eight anthropologists, sociologists, and historians probe the oppositional narratives created by Chinese rural intellectuals, ÈmigrÈ Croatians, and organized dissenters such as the Djilas of Yugoslavia who constructed and maintained oppositional histories in state socialist societies. Even as the creators of official history jealously guarded the right to produce historical tex...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 米克洛什·哈拉兹蒂（Miklós Haraszti），1945 年出生在耶路撒冷，后随父母回到匈牙利。他是匈牙利当代重要作家、思想家、人权运动者、大学教授，同时也是匈牙利民主派异议者最重要的地下期刊《讲述者》的编辑和突出贡献者。20世纪70年代匈牙利民主与自由出版运动发起者之一。2004—2010年曾指导欧洲安全与合作委员会（OSCE）媒体自由监督机构。另有著作《工人国家的工人》。作品被翻译多种语言，在欧美影响深远。 【译者简介】 戴潍娜，毕业于牛津大学。致力于“智性”与“灵性”相结合的文学创作和研究。著有诗文集《瘦江南》、童话小说集《仙草姑娘》。翻译作品包括伊塔洛·卡尔维诺短篇小说《组合与反组合》，雷蒙•格诺实验文本《格诺二题》《乌力波简史》等。