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Article: The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia.(Book Review)

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The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia, by Maureen Perrie. Studies in Russian and Eastern European History. New York, Palgrave, 2001. xv, 255 pp. $75.00 US (cloth).

Remembered by the Russians for his cruelty and the punitive expeditions of his secret police, oprichniki, Ivan IV (1530-84) went down in history with the epithet "Groznyi," translated as "Terrible." According to a popular legend, he was born during a thunderstorm or "groza" (in Russian the word also means "terror"). Maureen Perrie, who has published a book on the image of Tsar Ivan in Russian folklore, examines his phenomenal popularity during Stalin's rule. Surprisingly, Stalin welcomed ...

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