Stalin

A Biography

Robert Service First published 2004

About this book

"Drawing on hitherto unpublished material from the Moscow archives, only recently opened up to Western scholars, and on personal testimonies and private papers gathered from all over Russia, Georgia and Abkhazia, Service challenges the conventional view of the Soviet leader as simply a murderous bureaucrat."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

  • biography
  • heads of state
  • history
  • politics and government
  • soviet union
  • soviet union, history, 1925-1953