- Heads of state, Biography, History, Soviet union, history, 1925-1953
"Drawing on hitherto unpublished material from the Moscow archives, only recently opened up to Western scholars, and on personal testimonies and private papers gathered from all over Russia, Georgia and Abkhazia, Service challenges the conventional view of the Soviet leader as simply a murderous bureaucrat."--BOOK JACKET.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and cool.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Robert Service
- First published
- October 15, 2004
- Pages
- 715
- Publisher
- Belknap Press, Picador, Hua wen chu ban she
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English, Chinese, und
- ISBN
- 9780330419130
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