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Learn about the ruthless leader and the nation he helped build.
This biography of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin describes his political leanings, his association with Vladimir Lenin, his alliance with the United States and England during World War II, and his effort to spread Communism around the world.
11) Josef Stalin
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This book profiles the life of Joseph Stalin, who was a tyrannical dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 until 1953 and whose rule was characterized by fear.
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"The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators--her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but...
15) V.I. Lenin
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Vladimir I. Lenin was a driving force behind the Russian Revolution of 1917 and became the first great dictator of the Soviet Union. After his brother was executed in 1887 (for plotting to kill the Czar), Lenin gave up studying law and became a full-time revolutionary. He studied Karl Marx and formed workers' groups, but was arrested and exiled to Siberia in 1895. In 1900 he went to Europe, and in 1903 he led the Bolsheviks in the split of the Russian...