TY  - BOOK
AU  - Service,Robert
TI  - Stalin: a biography 
SN  - 9780330518376 (pbk.) :
AV  - DK268.S8 S4237 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London
PB  - Pan
KW  - Stalin, Joseph,
KW  - Heads of state
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Biography
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1917-1936
KW  - 1936-1953
N1  - Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2004; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -