Article: The TYRANT who came to tea (with the Lucky Stiffs); DEADLY GUEST: Stalin in 1932 with his own daughter, Svetlana. Top right: Maya Kavtaradze.

Article: Lenin's wonderful Georgian: John Etty charts the complex, and highly significant, relationship between Lenin and Stalin.(Profiles in Power)(Valdimir Lenin I)(Biography)
History Review;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Dmitri Volkogonov, 'The greatest secret of Stalin's invulnerability, his diabolical strength, was his monopoly on Lenin'. But did Stalin have any right to claim this monopoly...first published. In the Short Course, Stalin (who claimed authorship of the book after...

Article: HBO's `Stalin' is mostly silly
The Boston Globe;  November 21, 1992 ;     687 words ...MOSCOW -- "Stalin," which airs tonight (8 p.m. on HBO...silly movie. Its message is that Joseph Stalin was a monster. Beyond that, it has little...people were, how their views differed from Stalin's, or why Stalin eventually killed them...

Article: So long as he loved his mum; Josef Stalin.(Biography)
The Economist (US);  January 8, 2005 ;     625 words ...Tender Stalin with daughter Attempting to put a human face on him IN HIS still unequalled 1991 biography, Stalin: Breaker of Nations , Robert Conquest found that there was something in [Stalin's] character best thought of as an absence of...

Article: The riddle of Stalin; REVIEW.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  October 31, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Byline: RICHARD OVERY Stalin: A Biography by Robert Service Macmillan...pounds sterling]20 (0870 165 0870)**** Stalin is all too easy to dismiss as a ruthless...This is one of the many riddles of Stalin's 20-year domination of the Soviet Union...

Article: Stalin's re-emergence casts shadow over Moscow celebrations; Long- dead leader making a comeback with monuments in the works and criticism muted
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  May 9, 2005 ;     695 words ......anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany: Josef Stalin against the backdrop of a Red Army soldier...hammer-and-sickle over the Reichstag in Berlin. Stalin always has been a contradictory figure...After waves of denouncements following Stalin's death in 1953 and as Soviets learned...

Article: Stalin: Man and Ruler.
The Economist (US);  December 10, 1988 ;     700+ words ...STALIN: MAN AND RULER. By Robert McNeal. New York University Press...grim past means that history, in the shape of Uncle joe Stalin, has come back to haunt the country. A new biography of...dispassionate history pales beside the passion of the debate about Stalin that now rages in Russia. Stalin was ...

Article: STALIN
International Journal;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...STALIN A Biography Robert Service Cambridge, MA: Harvard University...xviii, 715pp, US$29.95 cloth (ISBN 0-674-01697-1) Many Stalin biographies have been published in a variety of languages...English had already developed all possible interpretations of Stalin, from a Trotskyist critique from the left to a ...

Article: TV Preview; HBO's `Stalin': Superficial Despite Duvall
The Washington Post;  November 21, 1992 ;     677 words ......giving the performance of his life in "Stalin," but entombed as he is under all that...is even in there. He looks like Joseph Stalin, sure, but under those conditions, so...notorious communist. The producers see Stalin as a Russian Don Corleone and the biography...

Article: Fifty Years On, Russia Still Divided on Stalin, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
The St. Petersburg Times (Russia);  March 7, 2003 ;     700+ words ......events to mark the 50th anniversary of Joseph Stalin's death on Wednesday, a group of about 40...present showed that, for some, questions of Stalin' s repressions or crimes are of little interest. Stalin was a great man and a great builder. He...

Article: The ice in Stalin's heart Michael Burleigh considers the rise of the one-time seminary boy to dictator and mass killer
The Sunday Telegraph London;  October 3, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Stalin: A Biography by Robert Service Macmillan, pounds 25, 718...moral sense to identify the cant that seeks to displace Stalin's responsibility for mass murder on to anodyne social processes...precision of Robert Conquest's shorter 1991 biography of Stalin - and his psychological insights are ...

Article: STALIN'S TRAGIC, DEADLY LEGACY ENDURES.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  March 7, 2003 ;     700+ words ......delivered from the long nightmare of Josef Stalin. The man who murdered his compatriots...wives, husbands, mothers and fathers to Stalin. Denouncing your colleagues and relatives...live till tomorrow'' was the motto of Stalin's subjects. Stalin's totalitarian police...

Article: STALIN AND HIS LOVER AGED 13; Told for the first time, the astonishing story of the brutal dictator's affair with an underage schoolgirl . . . and how he made her pregnant.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  May 12, 2007 ;     700+ words ......too shocking to believe. But now that Stalin was dead, his successor Nikita Khrushchev...in his 30s and before he became leader, Stalin had raped or seduced, even fathered a...as just another piece of Western anti-Stalin propaganda. It had first surfaced soon...

Article: Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy.
The Economist (US);  May 11, 1991 ;     700+ words ...NEARLY 40 years after his death, Stalin's influence over his unhappy country still...that continue to strangle the country are Stalin's real monuments. They are proving despairingly...great state to reflect his own obsessions. Stalin can be cited to support either the theory...

Article: Stalin in Power: the Revolution from Above.
The Economist (US);  May 11, 1991 ;     700+ words ...NEARLY 40 years after his death, Stalin's influence over his unhappy country still...that continue to strangle the country are Stalin's real monuments. They are proving despairingly...great state to reflect his own obsessions. Stalin can be cited to support either the theory...