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Stalin a biography

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2005Description: xviii, 715 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780330518376
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 947.084SER
Summary: Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story behind this notorious twentieth-century figure. Drawing on unexplored archives and personal testimonies gathered from across Russia and Georgia, this is the first full-scale biography of the Soviet dictator in twenty years.
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Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story behind this notorious twentieth-century figure. Drawing on unexplored archives and personal testimonies gathered from across Russia and Georgia, this is the first full-scale biography of the Soviet dictator in twenty years.

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