Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator

by Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Oleg Chlevuk, Oleg V. Chlevnjuk, et al.

Book Overview

The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written

Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were victims of famine directly resulting from Stalin's policies. What drove him toward...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300219784
• ISBN13: 9780300219784
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"