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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...