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Article: STALIN: A BIOGRAPHY by Robert Service
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- The Press
- Article date:
- December 11, 2004
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STALIN: A BIOGRAPHY by Robert Service. Macmillan, hardback, 715pp,
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When Stalin's body was put on show in Moscow on March 8, 1953,
several days after he died, hundreds of Russians died in the crush to
see him (the exact number is not known because the news was
suppressed). Given the fact that Stalin was the author of one of the
three most murderous tyrannies of the 20th century, the reaction is
almost impossible for the non-Russian to fathom. With the opening (at
least to some degree) of the Soviet archives after the collapse of
the ...