Stalin
New Biography of a Dictator
New Biography of a Dictator
osef 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.
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