Stalin-the Revolutionary. The Path to Power. 1879—1929

A biographical work about Stalin — the result of many years of research by Professor Roth Tucker of Princeton University, recognized as a significant scientific contribution to the historiography of the Soviet state. The main theme addressed in the book is Stalin until 1929, when he completed his long path to political supremacy and achieved recognition from the party as Lenin's successor. Although the proposed book belongs to the biographical genre, it is constructed on a somewhat different principle, dictated by the specificity of the topic itself — personality and the socio-political sphere. The author aimed not merely to recount the biography of a major political figure but to illuminate its connection with history. Being a life story of a person who in his mature years became such an unlimited ruler, as had not been seen in any contemporary major state, this book can also be called a study of the process of the formation of a dictator.