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For all the blood on his hands, Josef Stalin is indisputably one of the most important historical figures of the 20 th century. But where many biographers agree with Leon Trotsky's waspish dismissal ...

The subtitle of Edvard Radzinsky’s bitterly condemnatory life of Stalin sounds too much like an advertisement: “The First In-Depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents From Russia’s Secret ...

Robert Tucker, a distinguished Sovietologist whose frustrations in persuading the authorities in Stalin’s Russia to let his new Russian wife accompany him home to the United States gave him crucial ...

In the last 200 years the idea of will has gone from the most admired philosophical concept to the most maligned. Pulling yourself up by the bootstraps seemed the only way to go for Beethoven. Now we ...

For most people, the loss of your mother when you were 6 would be sufficient trauma to leave scars for a lifetime, but what if it was your father who drove her to suicide? And who also imprisoned or ...

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As there is little to record about Stalin that is not political, this brilliant and fascinating volume is in effect a full-fledged "life and times." The author has devoted many years to studying the ...