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Stalin
a biography
By Service, Robert
- ISBN
- 978-0-67401-697-2
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2005
Stalin was a mass murderer responsible for changing the political and social spectrum of Russia's old tsarist empire through unimaginably vicious means. But, according to Service (history, St. Antony's Coll., Oxford; A History of Modern Russia: From Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin ), if we only know him in these terms we miss the full persona: "Stalin was a bureaucrat and a killer; he was also a leader, a writer and editor, a theorist (of sorts...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
