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A Biography, published by Belknap Press. The book described the life and times of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, detailing his childhood, education, and religious training. After his ...

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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 ...

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 ...

He was a 17-year-old seminary student named Joseph (or Yoseb ... Service's fascinating new Stalin biography, the first comprehensive English-language treatment of his life since the opening ...

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 ...

Seared on the memory of Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, was the moment ... As Rosemary Sullivan's biography shows, she craved a "normal" family life and just ...