“Stalin, a sequel to Mr. Service's Lenin: A Biography, presents a richly documented, highly persuasive portrait of the man who transformed the Soviet Union into a modem military-industrial power, terrorized millions and ruled over an empire that would have been the envy of the czars Brick by brick, Mr. Service constructs a solid, accessible work that does as much as one book can to explain Stalin as a human /5(). · Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story behind this notorious twentieth-century figure. Drawing on unexplored archives and personal testimonies gathered from across Russia and Georgia, this is the first full-scale biography of the . · Stalin. by Robert Service. pp, Macmillan, £ Russians recently voted Stalin "the fourth greatest human being in world history". Another grey bureaucrat, Vladimir Putin (whose grandfather was Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
Stalin: A Biography by Robert Service Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service's biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. Robert Service uses all of these terms to describe Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhughashvili, known as Stalin, in this new biography. That he also uses terms such as intellectual, paterfamilias, singer of songs and lover of wine, to describe the `man of steel' disgusts and alienates some readers. In Stalin, Robert Service portrays the Russian leader Joseph Stalin as on of the notorious figures in history. In his years of power and pomp, from the late à  s until his death in , he personified the soviet communist order. Stalin and rose from extreme poverty to become the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.
Stalin: A Biography – By Robert Service - Brooks - - Historian - Wiley Online Library. Stalin: A Biography, written by Robert Service, is a book telling the story of how the uneducated political administrator transformed into a pathological killer, with few details excluded. Service did an amazing job of telling the younger life of the future leading of the USSR, from his life in Georgia, his drunk dad, to his active political service. Robert Service paints a picture of a warped monster of a man, insatiable in his pursuit of power, ruthless in his treatment of real and imagined rivals, remorseless in his murder of millions. Service’s innovation is to reveal Stalin’s frailty—above all, his capacity for miscalculation.
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