Robert C. Tucker (1918-2010) was professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University and past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
In 1929, Stalin plunged Soviet Russia into a coercive 'revolution from above,' a decade-long effort to amass military-industrial power for a new war. He forced twenty-five million peasant families into state-run collectives and transformed the Communist P...[SEE MORE]