208 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 31 cm
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Note
Includes timeline (page 204) and index.
Contents
The tyrant is dead -- Koba the patricide -- The saboteur -- The gangster -- The revolutionary -- Seizing power -- The growth of the gulag -- The terror -- The great patriotic war -- The iron curtain -- Stalin's criminal legacy.
Summary
Worshipped by the Russians as a great leader, Stalin was one of modern history's greatest tyrants, rivalling Hitler, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot.