Robert Service - StalinDrawing on a wealth of unexplored material available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union Robert Service's biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. It concentrates not simply on Stalin as dedicated bureaucrat or serial political killer, but on a fuller assessment of his formative interactions in Georgia, his youthful revolutionary activism, his relationship with Lenin, with his family, and with his party

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