New Biography of a Dictator
by Oleg V. Khlevniuk
Recommended by Brandon Stanton
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, History, and Nonfiction.
The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quartercentury, by Oleg Khlevniuk?s estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were...
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