Lenin's wonderful Georgian: John Etty charts the complex, and highly...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

The ice in Stalin's heart Michael Burleigh considers the rise of the...

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 ...

STALIN AND HIS LOVER AGED 13; Told for the first time, the astonishing...

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...

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...

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...

Stalin's need for terror

Evening Standard - London;  November 8, 1999 ;     683 words ...THE ROAD TO TERROR: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks...Getty and Oleg V Naumov (Yale, 22.50) STALIN'S Great Terror traumatised generations...Russians to take part in public life? Under Stalin, only the most ambitious and foolhardy...

A remarkable glimpse at life inside Stalin's Kremlin.(BOOKS)

The Washington Times;  February 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......the most remarkable books about Joseph Stalin I have read for many years. I speak not...Soviet history, especially the era of Stalin. It is a remarkable book because it has...Soviet Union during the genocidal years of Stalin's reign, roughly from 1928 to 1953, when...

Russia marks 50th anniversary of Stalin's death

AP Worldstream;  March 5, 2003 ;     501 words ......Russia marked the 50th anniversary of Josef Stalin's death Wednesday, with some mourning...Gennady Zyuganov in a solemn procession to Stalin's grave next to the Kremlin wall on Red...that wiped out the Russian peasantry, Stalin continues to be admired in the former...