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Article: STALIN
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- International Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright Canadian Institute of International Affairs Summer 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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STALIN A Biography Robert Service Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. xviii, 715pp, US$29.95 cloth (ISBN 0-674-01697-1)
Many Stalin biographies have been published in a variety of languages. During the decades when the Soviet archives remained inaccessible, historians writing in English had already developed all possible interpretations of Stalin, from a Trotskyist critique from the left to a conservative condemnation of the revolution in general and from a psychological profile of Stalin as an insecure mass murderer to an investigation of social processes that made Stalinism possible. No new conceptual visions of Stalinism emerged with the opening of former Soviet archives, yet ...