This book is one of the theme texts in the Cambridge Perspectives in History series. Allan Todd provides a lucid and succinct account of the rise to power of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, and assesses the impact that they had on the states they governed. The European Dictatorshi…
This book is one of the theme texts in the Cambridge Perspectives in History series. Allan Todd provides a lucid and succinct account of the rise to power of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, and assesses the impact that they had on the states they governed. The European Dictatorshi…
Exploiting new findings from former East Bloc archives and from long-ignored Western sources, this book presents a wholly new picture of the coming of World War II, Allied wartime diplomacy, and the origins of the Cold War. The author reveals that the story - widely believed by …
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 re…
"This book examines Stalin's increasing popularity in his native Georgia and in Putin's Russia. Through extensive field research, political commentary, and autobiographical elements from the perspective of the post-Soviet millennial generation, the author analyzes how Stalin's i…
Explains the motivations, personality, and actions of the man under whose rulership millions of Russians perished.
Explains the motivations, personality, and actions of the man under whose rulership millions of Russians perished.
Explains the motivations, personality, and actions of the man under whose rulership millions of Russians perished.
