Preface
Chronology
- From Djugashvili to Stalin
- The Grey Blur – Stalin in Revolution and Civil War
- Filling Lenin’s Shoes
- Storming Fortresses
- Nine Circles of Hell
- Stalin, the Soviet Union and the World in the 1930s
- The Tenth Circle of Hell: Invasion, Occupation, Victory - War without limits]
- World Stage, Final Act
- Stalin’s Afterlife – an Inconclusive Conclusion
Further Reading
Index
Biography
Christopher Read is Professor of Later Modern European History at the University of Warwick. His previous publications include Lenin: A Revolutionary Life (Routledge Historical Biographies, 2005) and War and Revolution in Russia: 1914–22 (2013).
"In this myth-busting biography, Chris Read is clear: Stalin may have been a monster, but he was a Marxist-Leninist monster. Read challenges the reader to accept that Stalin could only have done the terrible things he did because he was popular, and for that reason alone this book should be read by all students of history."
Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Swain, former Alec Nove Chair in Russian and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, UK
