16 The Professional

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. A Note on Dating and Spelling xv
5. A Note on Archives xvii
6. Maps xix
7. Introduction: Fortune’s Knave 1
8. Growing Up Georgian
9. 1 The Georgian 9
10. 2 The Pupil 31
11. 3 Koba 49
12. Breaking Left
13. 4 Apprentice of the Revolution 75
14. 5 Burning Bridges 95
15. 6 The Outlaw 116
16. 7 Trial by Fire 146
17. The Making of a Bolshevik
18. 8 On the Margins 177
19. 9 Becoming Bolshevik 193
20. 10 Back in the Game 212
21. Revolutionary Underground
22. 11 Revolutionary Baptism 229
23. 12 The Committeeman 250
24. 13 The Terrorist 271
25. 14 Meeting the Mountain Eagle 291
26. 15 Gendarme of the Revolution 305
27. 16 The Professional 333
28. Staying the Course
29. 17 The Tiflis “Ex” 361
30. 18 Journeyman for the Revolution 374
31. 19 The Rebel Disarmed 404
32. 20 Labor and Liquidators 428
33. From Outside In
34. 21 The Roving Agent 455
35. 22 The Man of Steel 481
36. 23 The Expert 507
37. 24 The Exile 537
38. 25 Far from the Front 565
39. The Steep Path to Power
40. 26 The Revolutionary 589
41. 27 Reaping the Whirlwind 617
42. 28 The Dark Before 642
43. 29 On the Eve 662
44. Conclusion: The Road Traveled 688
45. Historians Look at Stalin: A Historiographical Discussion 697
46. Notes 707
47. Index 831