New stalin biography
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Review
“Authoritative, fluently written.
New stalin biography
. . . The pinnacle of current scholarship on its subject.”—Charlotte Hobson, Spectator (Charlotte Hobson Spectator 2015-05-23)
“Oleg Khlevniuk is incontestably the best Russian student of Soviet history.
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In this biography, he uses his experience and talents to give us an innovative and convincing portrait of the Soviet “micromanaging” despot. The chapters dealing with the Terror, war, victory and the tragic postwar years break new ground.
Stalin’s political and private life, his relationships with his immediate circle, his family and the “Soviet people,” his intellectual capacities and his way of leading the country, as well as his cruelty and the system of power he built, come vividly to life, and one leaves the book with a much more profound understanding of some of Europe’s darkest decades.”—Andrea Graziosi, author of the Histoire de l'URSS (Andrea Graziosi)
"Oleg Khlevniuk, master of the Russian archives, provides a fresh and acute ana