Stalin Alive And Dead Cold: Breaker of Nations - Softcover

Conquest, Senior Research Fellow And Scholar-Curator Of The East European Collection Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140169539 ISBN 13: 9780140169539

Publisher: Penguin, 1992

Synopsis

Of all the despots of our time, Joseph Stalin lasted the longest and wielded the greatest power, and his secrets have been the most jealously guarded--even after his death.

In this book, the first to draw from recently released archives, Robert Conquest gives us Stalin as a child and student; as a revolutionary and communist theoretician; as a political animal skilled in amassing power and absolutely ruthless in maintaining it. He presents the landmarks of Stalin's rule: the clash with Lenin; collectivization; the great Terror; the Nazi-Soviet pact and the Nazi-Soviet war; the anti-Semitic campaign that preceded his death; and the legacy he left behind.

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From the Publisher:

Masterly portrait of evil by the foremost Western authority on Stalin. “There is no one better qualified to write Stalin’s life...Conquest tells the tale with an informed hatred for his subject, and a fine sense of irony which makes this book indispensable reading” A.N. Wilson, Evening Standard

Book Description:

A powerful and illuminating portrait of the character of the Soviet dictator.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140169539
• ISBN 13: 9780140169539
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384