Stalin
Stalin Stalin, to borrow Churchill's phrase, is "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma". This owes much to the enormity of the crimes, as Claire Shaw says in this short but chilling book…
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Stalin
Stalin, to borrow Churchill's phrase, is "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma". This owes much to the enormity of the crimes, as Claire Shaw says in this short but chilling book about the man and the political system that developed under his rule: Stalinism. There are still heated arguments about how precisely we should judge the Georgian student priest who grew up to be one of the 20th century's most notorious mass-murderers.
What visions underpinned his actions? (Very few political regimes have been personalised in such a way Nazism does not bear the name of Hitler, for example). What mechanisms enabled him to commit his crimes?
Why did nobody stop him? Within Stalin's lifetime, Russia and her neighbours endured a series of violent revolutions, two world wars, the forced collectivisation of agriculture, a major industrialisation drive, and the violent cataclysms of the
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