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Books were Stalin’s secret weapon. He read widely on military strategy and history. He also read to store up ammunition against his opponents, purging those writers whose ideas he opposed.
I e xpected to learn a great deal from the first comprehensive account of Stalin’s annotations, Stalin’s Library, by Geo ff rey Roberts. 1 A professor emeritus at University College Cork, Roberts is ...
Stalin’s main interests included history, Marxist revolutionary thought, and diplomacy. In fiction, his tastes were “conservative and conventional.” Stalin advised publishers, met with authors to ...
Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books, by Geoffrey Roberts (Yale University Press, 272 pp., $30) Maxim Gorky’s novel Mother, written in 1906, when the Russian revolutionary in­fection ...
Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and his Books by Geoffrey Roberts, Yale University Press £25/$30, 272 pages. Tony Barber is the FT’s European affairs commentator .
Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and his Books then provides another view of the man through the only personal scribbles available to us – the comments he made in the margins of his books.
A DICTATOR’S LIBRARY: At some point in 1938, Joseph Stalin sat down, alone, and literally rewrote history — marking up a draft of The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which ...
Stalin’s Library – A Dictator and His Books By Geoffrey Roberts Yale University Press £25. IT IS said, with insight, that you can obtain a true understanding of an individual from the books they read.
Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books, by Geoffrey Roberts, Yale University Press, 268pp, £25. Playing With Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia, by Elizabeth ...