History illuminates the present. I've been reading Stephen Kotkin's widely and justly praised multivolume biography of Joseph ...

Legend has it that the Russian leader was an evil idiot. But Stephen Kotkin's new biography reveals a learned despot who acted cunningly to take advantage of the times. Former Travel Editor A ...

For all the blood on his hands, Josef Stalin is indisputably one of the most important historical figures of the 20 th century. But where many biographers agree with Leon Trotsky's waspish dismissal ...

It’s unusual for two masterpieces to appear within less than a year of each other on a subject that has already been pored over by countless writers from nearly every angle. That has now happened with ...

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History illuminates the present. I’ve been reading Stephen Kotkin’s widely and justly praised multivolume biography of Joseph ...

History illuminates the present. I’ve been reading Stephen Kotkin’s widely and justly praised multivolume biography of Joseph ...