Stalin : man of steel or mass murderer?
Kerrigan, Michael, 1959-2018
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'I trust no one, not even myself.' Joseph Stalin Thug, armed robber, activist, revolutionary, tyrant - we know the headlines, we know about the atrocities, but what do we really know of the man at the heart of it all? 'Stalin' looks behind the image of the dictator and explores Ioseb Jughashvili's Georgian childhood, his early political awakening, his criminal life, his rise within the Bolshevik party, and his times in exiles. It examines his personal life, including his two marriages and children from other relationships, his son's attempted suicide and his second wife's suicide. It charts his emergence as leader, his political ideology, his handling of famines, his secret police, gulags and murderous purges. It explores Stalin as war leader through the Civil War, Polish-Soviet War and World War II, and examines how he brought Eastern Europe behind the 'Iron Curtain' after 1945.
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Stalin : man of steel or mass murderer? / Michael Kerrigan.
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London : Amber Books, 2018.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781782746782 (hbk)
Dewey class:
B STA947.0842092
Language:
English
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BRN:
2713117
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