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Stalin the intellectual: the dictator cast in a new light

Geoffrey Roberts gives us Stalin the writer and profound thinker, whose avid reading shaped every decision he made

Stalin at his desk. [Getty Images]
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  • Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books

    Geoffrey Roberts

    Yale, pp. 259, £25

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