The first defeat of Stalin. 1917-1922. From the Russian Empire - to the USSR

The book "The first defeat of Stalin" talks about the beginning of the political career of the future head of the Soviet Union. About how, during the years of the revolution and the Civil War, he tried to preserve the unity of Russia, to prevent either its collapse or collapse into national republics. About who opposed this to him and why Stalin could not win in such a fierce and uncompromising struggle.
The book was created on the basis of unique archival documents, most of which are only recently declassified and offers a completely new look at the events of those stormy years.
She answers extremely painful questions in a new way and today, convincingly proves, it would seem, incredible:
The views of Stalin - in 1917, the third person in the Bolshevik party - and Milyukov - the leader of the cadet party and the ideologist of the "White Movement - completely coincided in the question of what the country should be,
The beginning of the collapse of Russia in the spring of 1917 laid the separatist aspirations of the Ukrainian Central Rada,
In the spring of 1919, Stalin was removed from Moscow, rejecting it until the end of the Civil War from participating in the leadership of the party and the state,
In 1920, there were no serious grounds for recognizing the independence of the Baltic republics,
The USSR in the constitutional form, which was approved in December 1922 and which remained until December 1991, was created contrary to the objections of Stalin for the sake of left -wing utopias that defended Lenin, Kamenev, Zinoviev, Trotsky