Stalin: The Kremlin Mountaineer (Icons) (Kindle Single)

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Stalin: The Kremlin Mountaineer (Icons) (Kindle Single)

Paul Johnson, the most celebrated popular historian of our time, takes a scalpel to Stalin, whom he considers "one of the outstanding monsters of history." Johnson sets forth the essence of Stalinâ€™s life, character, and career. "It has been a hateful task, which has caused me much pain and disgust," he writes with characteristic candor. "But it has been a duty I have performed not without a certain grim satisfaction." Stalin poses a particular challenge to a biographer: How does one render such a monster human? While Johnson doesn't flinch from chronicling Stalin's rise to absolute powerâ€”the remorseless vendetta against Leon Trotsky, the development of the Gulag, the extermination of millions of peasantsâ€”he also shows Stalin playing billiards, listening to his adored Mozart, and annotating Marxâ€™s Capital in the margins. It is, in concise form, the story of Russia in the twentieth century: dark and murderous, a stage on which to display humanity's infinite capacity for self-destruction.

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