The subtitle of Edvard Radzinsky’s bitterly condemnatory life of Stalin sounds too much like an advertisement: “The First In-Depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents From Russia’s Secret ...

Kotkin opens the book by pointing out that Stain achieved very little in his first thirty-nine years and also that he was human, a point that some of his detractors might find hard to believe given ...

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For all the blood on his hands, Josef Stalin is indisputably one of the most important historical figures of the 20 th century. But where many biographers agree with Leon Trotsky's waspish dismissal ...

Robert Tucker, a distinguished Sovietologist whose frustrations in persuading the authorities in Stalin’s Russia to let his new Russian wife accompany him home to the United States gave him crucial ...

The first volume of Kotkin’s biography of Josef Stalin looks at the Soviet leader’s early and personal life, his role in the Bolshevik Revolution and his eventual control of the Soviet Union starting ...

In the last 200 years the idea of will has gone from the most admired philosophical concept to the most maligned. Pulling yourself up by the bootstraps seemed the only way to go for Beethoven. Now we ...

As there is little to record about Stalin that is not political, this brilliant and fascinating volume is in effect a full-fledged "life and times." The author has devoted many years to studying the ...

Here is a life-and-times biography in the grand style: deeply researched, well written, brimming with interpretations. Oxford historian Service, author of an acclaimed biography of Lenin, provides the ...