But Stephen Kotkin's new biography ... starts his book with Stalin’s early years—and in the process, dismantles all those pop-psychology arguments that claim little Joseph became a monster ...

Not surprisingly, Joseph ... s “Stalin: Passage to Revolution” is a worthy contribution to this continuing enterprise. “The telling of Stalin’s life has always been more than biography ...

Arthur Ross Book Award for Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 (Random House), the second volume of a definitive biography of Joseph Stalin. The book covers major events in the Soviet Union ...

Ioseb Jughashvili – known to us as Joseph Stalin – appears ... than childhood trauma. This book, the first volume of three, tends to history rather than biography. Kotkin presents the period ...

a Stalin biography. Entering a crowded marketplace, the book makes its mark through its ... Stalin was born Joseph Dzhugashvili in 1878 in Gori, Georgia, on the periphery of the Russian Empire.

Such was the predicament of Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of the Soviet tyrant Joseph Stalin ... new biography, Stalin's Daughter. That is no criticism of the book: Sullivan does an ...

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was so outraged at the anti-communism of film star John Wayne that he plotted to have him murdered, according to a new biography ... the book says, citing several ...

Scott describes his book as “the story of a duel between Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler for the continent of Europe. It is the story of the maneuvering, intrigue and deceit whereby each tried in ...

Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union’s ruler from ... His more than 800-page book is a half-biography, being limited to the years up to the October 1917 revolution in Petrograd.

In the pantheon of dictators Joseph Stalin’s reputation ... Georgian capital Tbilisi. Stalin believed in the power of words for the simple reason that reading books changed his life and guided ...

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was so angered by John Wayne's anti-communism that he plotted to have him murdered, according to a new biography of the Hollywood ... In one instance, the book says, two ...