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Stalin: A Biography

Author Robert Service
Language English
Subject Biography
Publisher Macmillan
Publication date 2004
Publication place United Kingdom
Media type Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages 715
Preceded by Lenin: A Biography
Followed by Trotsky: A Biography

Stalin: A Biography is a biography of Joseph Stalin written by Robert Service. It was published in 2004.[1]

For his research, Service traveled to Abkhazia, where Stalin's dacha was located during the 1930s.[2]

The book describes Stalin's life, covering in detail his youth, rise to power, and rule. According to the publisher, it uses a personal style that "humanizes Stalin without ever diminishing the extent of the atrocities he unleashed upon the Soviet population."[1]

  1. ^ a b Stalin: A Biography, by Robert Service, Harvard University Press (without date).
  2. ^ Jürgen Zarusky: Neuerscheinungen zu Stalin, sehepunkte.de (2006).