Robert Service - Stalin - A Biography

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Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story behind this notorious twentieth-century figure. Drawing on unexplored archives and personal testimonies gathered from across Russia and Georgia, this is the first full-scale biography of the Soviet dictator in twenty years.
Service describes in unprecedented detail the first half of Stalin’s life—his childhood in Georgia as the son of a violent, drunkard father and a devoted mother; his education and religious training; and his political activity as a young revolutionary. No mere messenger for Lenin, Stalin was a prominent activist long before the Russian Revolution. Equally compelling is the depiction of Stalin as Soviet leader. Service recasts the image of Stalin as unimpeded despot; his control was not limitless. And his conviction that enemies surrounded him was not entirely unfounded.
Stalin was not just a vengeful dictator but also a man fascinated by ideas and a voracious reader of Marxist doctrine and Russian and Georgian literature as well as an internationalist committed to seeing Russia assume a powerful role on the world stage. In examining the multidimensional legacy of Stalin, Service helps explain why later would-be reformers—such as Khrushchev and Gorbachev—found the Stalinist legacy surprisingly hard to dislodge.
Rather than diminishing the horrors of Stalinism, this is an account all the more disturbing for presenting a believable human portrait. Service’s lifetime engagement with Soviet Russia has resulted in the most comprehensive and compelling portrayal of Stalin to date.

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35 Stalins Kholodnaya Rechka dacha viewed from the garden 36 The cinema - фото 40
35. Stalin’s Kholodnaya Rechka dacha, viewed from the garden.
36 The cinema gallery at the Kholodnaya Rechka dacha 37 The Italianmade - фото 41
36. The cinema gallery at the Kholodnaya Rechka dacha.
37 The Italianmade billiard table at the Kholodnaya Rechka dacha 38 - фото 42
37. The Italian-made billiard table at the Kholodnaya Rechka dacha.
38 Lavrenti Beria 39 Georgi Malenkov 40 Stalins desk in the Kremlin It - фото 43
38. Lavrenti Beria.
39 Georgi Malenkov 40 Stalins desk in the Kremlin It is now kept in the - фото 44
39. Georgi Malenkov.
40 Stalins desk in the Kremlin It is now kept in the Stalin Museum in Gori - фото 45
40. Stalin’s desk in the Kremlin. It is now kept in the Stalin Museum in Gori.
41 View across Lake Ritsa towards the mountains of the Caucasus Stalins - фото 46
41. View across Lake Ritsa towards the mountains of the Caucasus. Stalin’s dacha lies in the middle on the distant shore.
42 Poster Under the Leadership of the Great Stalin Forward to Communism - фото 47

42. Poster: ‘Under the Leadership of the Great Stalin. Forward to Communism!’

43 Daily Worker London cartoon on the death of Stalin 6 March 1953 Hardly - фото 48
43. Daily Worker (London) cartoon on the death of Stalin, 6 March 1953. Hardly an image of great technical accomplishment.
44 Mourners queue to pay their last respects to Stalin in the Hall of Columns - фото 49
44. Mourners queue to pay their last respects to Stalin in the Hall of Columns at the House of Unions.
45 Stalins death mask 46 Shrine to Stalin built over and around one of his - фото 50
45. Stalin’s death mask.
46 Shrine to Stalin built over and around one of his childhood homes in Gori - фото 51
46. Shrine to Stalin built over and around one of his childhood homes in Gori.
47 Stalins statue still standing in the centre of Gori About the Author - фото 52
47. Stalin’s statue, still standing in the centre of Gori.

About the Author

ROBERT SERVICE is the author of the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography (which won the US ForeWord magazine’s History Book of the Year Award in 2000), A History of Twentieth-Century Russia and Russia: Experiment with a People as well as many other books on Russia’s past and present. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and works at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He is married with four children.

Also by Robert Service

The Bolshevik Party in Revolution: A Study in Organisational Change

Lenin: A Political Life

Volume One: The Strengths of Contradiction

Volume Two: Worlds in Collision

Volume Three: The Iron Ring

The Russian Revolution, 1900–1927

A History of Twentieth-Century Russia

Lenin: A Biography

Russia: Experiment with a People

Comrades: Communism: A World History (publishing 2007)

Copyright

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First published 2004 by Macmillan

This edition published 2005 by Pan Books

This electronic edition published 2008 by Pan Books

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ISBN 978-0-330-47638-6 in Adobe Reader format

ISBN 978-0-330-47637-9 in Adobe Digital Editions format

ISBN 978-0-330-47640-9 in Microsoft Reader format

ISBN 978-0-330-47639-3 in Mobipocket format

Copyright © Robert Service 2004

The right of Robert Service to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Picture credits

Adele Biagi: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 29, 30, 35, 36, 37, 40, 41, 45, 46, 47. Corbis: 18, 19, 38, 39, 44. David King Collection: 9, 10, 11, 15. Hoover Institution Archives, RU/SU2237, Poster Collection: 42. Hulton Getty: 2, 7, 17, 31. Popperfoto: 20.

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