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Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and his Books

by Geoffrey Roberts

In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words and his voracious appetite for reading guided him throughout his years. A biography as well as an intellectual por

Publisher

Yale University Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9780300179040