About this book
"Drawing on hitherto unpublished material from the Moscow archives, only recently opened up to Western scholars, and on personal testimonies and private papers gathered from all over Russia, Georgia and Abkhazia, Service challenges the conventional view of the Soviet leader as simply a murderous bureaucrat."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Heads of stateBiographyHistorySoviet union, history, 1925-1953Politics and governmentStalin, joseph, 1879-1953Soviet Union