Description
Joseph Stalin’s life is rendered in vivid, meticulously researched detail in this sweeping biography by Robert Service. Tracing Stalin from his Georgian youth through his rise within the Bolshevik ranks and into the machinery of dictatorship, the book examines how ambition, ideology, and personal temperament converged to shape a regime that remade Soviet society. Service’s narrative approach is notable for its ability to humanize Stalin’s character while never softening the scale of the atrocities unleashed under his rule. Themes of power, paranoia, revolutionary legacy, and the moral costs of total control run throughout, offering readers a clear-eyed portrait of how one man came to dominate an era.
Available Editions
paperback
Pan Macmillan
Published Jun 9, 2011
736 pages
ISBN: 9780330518376
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Details
First Published
2004
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Stalin by Robert Service.