Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin

Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

Stalin #1

Stephen Kotkin

976 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced

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A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has the quality of myth: A poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a revolutionary a...

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