Ronald Grigor Suny

Books³

Stalin: Passage to Revolution Ronald Grigor Suny
A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative years
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The Baku Commune, 1917-1918: Class and Nationality in the Russian Revolution Ronald Grigor Suny
Ronald Grigor Suny examines the Revolution in Baku, important provincial capital and oil center of the Russian empire. His study of Baku's national and class conflicts, Bolshevism as it developed in the city, and the failure of the...
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"They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide Ronald Grigor Suny
A definitive history of the 20th century's first major genocide on its 100th anniversary
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Ideas¹

Fortune’s knave In the spring of 1924, Stalin’s nemesis and rival, Lev Trotsky, told the “Old Bolshevik” Vladimir Smirnov, “Stalin will become the dictator of the USSR.” “Stalin?” Smirnov reacted. “But he is a mediocrity, a colorless non-entity.” Read More