Stalin : a biography
Robert Service (Author)
Service brings 30 years of involvement with Russia and its history to bear on this most controversial and enigmatic of figures. The events of the October Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Terror and, above all, World War II, more open to examination than ever before, are probed to explain the nature of Stalin's personality
Print Book, English, 2006
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006