Charlotte Hobson

Micro-managing the terror

Stalin’s latest biographer dispenses with the myths and gives us all the facts — which far surpass any fabricated horror

‘We will achieve abundance’ promises a propaganda poster of 1949. But by 1952 most free Soviet citizens shared the same diet as the inhabitants of the Gulag. Getty Images

  • Stalin

    Oleg Khlevniuk

    Yale, pp. 408

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