Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941, (Paperback)

from gregdehler

A massive book that is well worth reading if you want to know more about Stalin, the 1930s, the origins of WWII, or even dictatorship. One gets a strong sense of what Stalin was like, what it would be like to be around him, and his physical presence. He made a habit of breaking and humiliating pe...

from mrmapcase

Kotkin has created a masterpiece of a biography, one that is very, very thorough but also eminently readable. Like most biographies of world leaders this is a lengthy book, even more so that it only covers twelve years of Stalin's life, but the information is not concealed within a mass of text, ...

from mrmapcase

Kotkin has created a masterpiece of a biography, one that is very, very thorough but also eminently readable. Like most biographies of world leaders this is a lengthy book, even more so that it only covers twelve years of Stalin's life, but the information is not concealed within a mass of text, ...