Stalin biography e-books

The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written, winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Biography & Autobiography

"Enthralling, brilliant, and groundbreaking, this book confirms Khlevniuk as probably the greatest living expert on Stalin.

Essential reading."--Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar

Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953.

The magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world.

The magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world.

This first volume offers a unique view of early life of Joseph Stalin.

This biography examines the life of Joseph Stalin using easy-to-read, compelling text.

This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet.

Drawing on unexplored archives and personal testimonies gathered from across Russia and Georgia, this is the first full-scale biography of the Soviet dictator.

During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were victims of famine directly resulting from Stalin's policies.

What drove him toward such ruthlessness? This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin the man and dictator.

Without mythologizing Stalin