Robert Service talked about his book [Stalin: A Biography], published by Belknap Press. The book described the life and times of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, detailing his childhood ...

Joseph Stalin addresses voters in Moscow on the even of the election in which Russians voted for the first time under the new constitution, Dec. 22, 1937. Bettmann / Getty Images.

Having gained access to secret documents in Russia’s archives, biographer Edvard Radzinsky wrote a comprehensive biography about Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) who, after dismantling the tsarist ...

As there is little to record about Stalin that is not political, this brilliant and fascinating volume is in effect a full-fledged "life and times." The author has devoted many years to studying the ...

Kotkin’s biography of Joseph Stalin is already monumental—and this is just the first entry in a planned trilogy. Stalin emerges here as a more vivid and complete figure than he does in countless other ...

November 2, 2018—Professor Stephen Kotkin has won the seventeenth annual Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Arthur Ross Book Award for Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 (Random House), the ...

Sullivan cites Stalin’s grandson, the Russian theater director Alexander Burdonsky, who describes his aunt as a princess who tried to escape her fate and to live normally, but was always doomed.

Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin, Penguin, 949 pages, $25 The first volume of Kotkin’s biography of Josef Stalin looks at the Soviet leader’s early and ...