Service, Robert,  1947- <br/><br/>
Stalin :  a biography / 
Robert Service. 
 - London :  Pan,  2010. 
 - xviii, 715 p., [24] p. of plates :  ill., maps, ports. ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2004. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Service brings 30 years of involvement with Russia and its history to bear on this most controversial and enigmatic of figures. The events of the October Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Terror and, above all, World War II, more open to examination than ever before, are probed to explain the nature of Stalin's personality. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780330518376 (pbk.) :  £9.99 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Heads of state--Soviet Union--Biography.<br/>Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Soviet Union--Politics and government--1917-1936.<br/>Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953.