Full name: Stalin: Breaker of nations

Author: Robert Conquest Year: 1991 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Biographies, Non Fiction, War/Military, Politics Culture: Russia Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780297811947 9780140169539 0297811940 0140169539

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. Similar books: Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore Stalin by Robert Service Stalin by Isaac Deutscher Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin Conspirator by Helen Rappaport Lenin by Dmitri Volkogonov Lenin by Robert Service Trotsky by Bertrand M. Patenaude Beria by Amy Knight Khrushchev by William Taubman Gorbachev by William Taubman The Whisperers by Orlando Figes Trotsky by Robert Service Reflections on a Ravaged Century by Robert Conquest In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson Into the Fire by Dakota Meyer The Meaning of Hitler by Sebastian Haffner No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal