Stalin: Breaker of Nations by Robert Conquest
A culmination of a lifetime's work, this book is a masterly portrait of a man who perhaps more than any other determined the course of the twentieth century
Stalin
Stalin
Summary
Conquest focuses on Stalin's terrifying character, portraying him as an unnatural monster who was responsible for slaughtering millions but who demanded adulation. The author tells of Stalin's skill at falsification and deception which duped many both in the West and in his own empire.
Stalin Summary
About Robert Conquest
Robert Conquest was educated at Winchester and Magdalen College, Oxford. He served in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in World War II,and thereafter in the Foreign Service in Sofia and New York, for which he was awarded the OBE. He has since held various academic posts. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
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GOR013520065
9780753801482
0753801485
Stalin: Breaker of Nations by Robert Conquest
Used - Like New
Paperback
Orion Publishing Co
19980511
368
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