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 ...

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Yet the book offers ... is completing a biography of the young Stalin. STALIN By Stephen Kotkin Penguin Press. 949 pp. $40 There is a kind of justice when a great despot like Joseph Stalin ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...