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06:21, Mon, Feb 12, 2018 Updated: 06:36, Mon, Feb 12, 2018 Kotkin opens the book by pointing out that Stain achieved very little in his first thirty-nine years and also that he was human, a point that ...

For all the blood on his hands, Josef Stalin is indisputably one of the most important historical figures of the 20 th century. But where many biographers agree with Leon Trotsky's waspish dismissal ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore is best known for his monumental biography Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2003), which offered a mesmerizing, richly detailed portrait of the Soviet tyrant’s inner ...

In the last 200 years the idea of will has gone from the most admired philosophical concept to the most maligned. Pulling yourself up by the bootstraps seemed the only way to go for Beethoven. Now we ...

Even before it became the IT capital of India, Bangalore was the least left-wing of Indian cities. When it was merely a cantonment town, it exuded an air of placid contentment; that air is now ...

As there is little to record about Stalin that is not political, this brilliant and fascinating volume is in effect a full-fledged "life and times." The author has devoted many years to studying the ...

Here is a life-and-times biography in the grand style: deeply researched, well written, brimming with interpretations. Oxford historian Service, author of an acclaimed biography of Lenin, provides the ...