Joseph Stalin: A Biography
Book Arrangement: Stalin: A Biography is structured with a complex system of parts, chapters, and subchapters. Five parts are broken down into 55 descriptive chapters, each one highlighting a different prominent event or idea in Joseph Stalin’s life. As expected from such a substantial number of chapters, this book presents a plethora of information regarding Joseph Stalin’s personal life and political career. The novel follows chronological order of his life as it journeys from his disturbed childhood to his death in 1953. The final chapter precedes a glossary, a lengthy notes section, a bibliography, and an index. Book Content: Part One: The Revolutionary- Part One introduces the reader to the damaging, destructive beginning that
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The chapters included in this section recite the stories of how political power came upon Joseph Stalin through an unlikely sequence of events. The turmoil and struggles that hindered his success at first were inevitable adversities associated with becoming a politician: living beneath the shadow of more well-known leaders, inexperience in regards to public speaking and rhetoric, and no political connections in his family. Becoming the eventual leader of the Soviet Union would seem to be an incredibly daunting and unlikely occurrence, but Robert Service analyzes exactly what Stalin accomplished that enabled him to achieve his eventual …show more content…
The caricature resembles a police facial composite drawing of a criminal, which connects to the criminal terms commonly branded onto Joseph Stalin: murderer, crook, fraud. “Leveling the playing field” per say and giving Stalin a clean, even, slate, and remembering him equally and as factually as we remember other famous liars and criminals, Abraham Lincoln for example, is a common ideal spread throughout the book. Uncoincidentally, the book is broken into five parts, each an equal 121 pages. The equal number of pages coincides with the author’s desired equal treatment of Stalin. The background itself is red to represent the blood that has fallen at Stalin’s wish, this red background bleeds through the depiction of him on the front cover, displaying how the blood and pain he caused shaped him into the person
The chapters included in this section recite the stories of how political power came upon Joseph Stalin through an unlikely sequence of events. The turmoil and struggles that hindered his success at first were inevitable adversities associated with becoming a politician: living beneath the shadow of more well-known leaders, inexperience in regards to public speaking and rhetoric, and no political connections in his family. Becoming the eventual leader of the Soviet Union would seem to be an incredibly daunting and unlikely occurrence, but Robert Service analyzes exactly what Stalin accomplished that enabled him to achieve his eventual …show more content…
The caricature resembles a police facial composite drawing of a criminal, which connects to the criminal terms commonly branded onto Joseph Stalin: murderer, crook, fraud. “Leveling the playing field” per say and giving Stalin a clean, even, slate, and remembering him equally and as factually as we remember other famous liars and criminals, Abraham Lincoln for example, is a common ideal spread throughout the book. Uncoincidentally, the book is broken into five parts, each an equal 121 pages. The equal number of pages coincides with the author’s desired equal treatment of Stalin. The background itself is red to represent the blood that has fallen at Stalin’s wish, this red background bleeds through the depiction of him on the front cover, displaying how the blood and pain he caused shaped him into the person