Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
- ISBN-10
- 0300219784
- ISBN-13
- 9780300219784
- Series
- Stalin
- Pages
- 408
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-03-22
- Author
- Oleg V. Khlevniuk
Description
Joseph Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century he casued 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 biography offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin the man and dictator.
