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Stalin: Breaker of Nations
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Stalin: Breaker of Nations Paperback - 1992

by Conquest, Robert

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A leading scholar-historian of the U.S.S.R. offers a penetrating look at one of the most enigmatic and terrifying figures of modern times. Distilling a lifetime's study, Conquest provides a powerful, living portrait of Josef Stalin as child and student, revolutionary and Communist theoretician, political animal and paranoid leader. "A brisk, informative synthesis".--The Wall Street Journal.

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  • Title Stalin: Breaker of Nations
  • Author Conquest, Robert
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 1992-11-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # E02L-00363
  • ISBN 9780140169539 / 0140169539
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.77 x 5.07 x 0.75 in (19.74 x 12.88 x 1.91 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Library of Congress subjects Soviet Union - Politics and government, Stalin, Joseph
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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When Stalin was long established in Moscow as the ruler of a vast, largely Russian empire, his young son told his even younger daughter, 'You know, Papa used to be a Georgian once' The comment is true.

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  • Publishers Weekly, 09/07/1992, Page 0

About the author

Robert Conquest was one of Britain's most respected historians and was an acclaimed novelist, poet, critic, and reviewer. He was the author of such works as the bestselling The Harvest of Sorrow and Stalin and the Kirov Murder.

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