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Joseph Stalin (Leading Lives)
Joseph Stalin traces the life of the Georgian revolutionary who rose through the Bolshevik movement to dominate the Soviet Union. The biography follows his early political activity, role after the Russian Revolution, defeat of rivals after Lenin’s death and construction of a dictatorship marked by collectivisation, purges and forced industrialisation. It also examines Stalin’s wartime leadership and the immense human cost of the system he controlled until his death in 1953.
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