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A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library

"[A] fascinating new study."-Michael O'Donnell, Wall Street Journal

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…

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