Stalin

While reading accounts of court life during the Stalin years may seem like nothing more than harmless fun, these details actually play a vital role in our understanding of Stalin and his rule.

Insiders present their fascinating accounts of what life inside Stalin's court was like.

Part 2 looks at the actual contents of Stalin's famous article, 'Dizzy With Success'.

Lenin once observed that Stalin had a tendency to “make a rotten compromise in order then to deceive.” Nowhere was this propensity for deceit more clearly displayed than with 'Dizzy With Success'.

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Stalin is one of the most extraordinary personalities in human history, perhaps the most extraordinary. Much has been written about him, but it is from the testimony of insiders that we can best understand his unique character and how it enabled him to become undisputed ruler of the Soviet empire.

Stalin took a big risk in deciding to eliminate Kirov, but the gamble turned out to be successful. Part II explains the astonishing sequence of events that resulted from the assassination and how it benefited the Boss.

Part I details the death of Sergei Mironovich Kirov and explains why there was a conspiracy to murder this prominent Bolshevik.

Although the motive to kill Stalin is obvious, the evidence is less clear. Three authors offer their theories on the death of Stalin.