Book Summary and Reviews of Stalin by Robert Service

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"Starred Review. Here is a life-and-times biography in the grand style: deeply researched, well written, brimming with interpretations." - Publishers Weekly

"A necessary reappraisal. " - Booklist "Service has written an unhurried, richly detailed and rigorously researched book, anchored in hundreds of sources--a vast but cleanly structured text, polished, fluent and brisk...Service gives us a portrait of a paranoid and murderous despot, not a one-dimensional, cartoonish baddie...Service greatly advances our understanding by deftly fusing the tale of the man with that of the doctrine to which he was fanatically beholden and the ethos and practices of the tiny underground party." - Washington Post

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