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Editorial: Yale University Press, 2022
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- Título
- Stalin's Library: A Dictator and his Books
- Autor
- Roberts, Geoffrey
- Editorial
- Yale University Press
- Año de publicación
- 2022
- Estado
- Very Good
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 0300179049
- ISBN 13
- 9780300179040
- Peso del artículo
- 581 gramos
A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library
“[A] fascinating new study.”―Michael O’Donnell, Wall Street Journal
In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words, and his voracious appetite for reading guided him throughout his years. A biography as well as an intellectual portrait, this book explores all aspects of Stalin’s tumultuous life and politics.
Stalin, an avid reader from an early age, amassed a surprisingly diverse personal collection of thousands of books, many of which he marked and annotated, revealing his intimate thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Based on his wide-ranging research in Russian archives, Roberts tells the story of the creation, fragmentation, and resurrection of Stalin’s personal library. As a true believer in communist ideology, Stalin was a fanatical idealist who hated his enemies―the bourgeoisie, kulaks, capitalists, imperialists, reactionaries, counter-revolutionaries, traitors―but detested their ideas even more.
“[A] fascinating new study.”―Michael O’Donnell, Wall Street Journal
In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words, and his voracious appetite for reading guided him throughout his years. A biography as well as an intellectual portrait, this book explores all aspects of Stalin’s tumultuous life and politics.
Stalin, an avid reader from an early age, amassed a surprisingly diverse personal collection of thousands of books, many of which he marked and annotated, revealing his intimate thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Based on his wide-ranging research in Russian archives, Roberts tells the story of the creation, fragmentation, and resurrection of Stalin’s personal library. As a true believer in communist ideology, Stalin was a fanatical idealist who hated his enemies―the bourgeoisie, kulaks, capitalists, imperialists, reactionaries, counter-revolutionaries, traitors―but detested their ideas even more.
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Geoffrey Roberts is emeritus professor of history at University College Cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. A leading Soviet history expert, his many books include an award-winning biography of Zhukov, Stalin’s general, and the acclaimed Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War.
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