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Stalin - New Biography of a Dictator (Paperback)
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Stalin - New Biography of a Dictator (Paperback)
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Loot Price R555
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The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious
dictator ever written, winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Biography
& Autobiography "Enthralling, brilliant, and groundbreaking,
this book confirms Khlevniuk as probably the greatest living expert
on Stalin. Essential reading."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of
Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar Josef Stalin exercised supreme
power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During
that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the
imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet
citizens per year. Millions more were victims of famine directly
resulting from Stalin's policies. What drove him toward such
ruthlessness? This essential biography, by the author most deeply
familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an
unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin the man and
dictator. Without mythologizing Stalin as either benevolent or an
evil genius, Khlevniuk resolves numerous controversies about
specific events in the dictator's life while assembling many
hundreds of previously unknown letters, memos, reports, and diaries
into a comprehensive, compelling narrative of a life that altered
the course of world history. In brief, revealing prologues to each
chapter, Khlevniuk takes his reader into Stalin's favorite dacha,
where the innermost circle of Soviet leadership gathered as their
vozhd lay dying. Chronological chapters then illuminate major
themes: Stalin's childhood, his involvement in the Revolution and
the early Bolshevik government under Lenin, his assumption of
undivided power and mandate for industrialization and
collectivization, the Terror, World War II, and the postwar period.
At the book's conclusion, the author presents a cogent warning
against nostalgia for the Stalinist era.
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