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Uncle Joe is revered in Putin’s Russia as a benevolent dictator

Stalin’s latest biographer dispenses with the myths and gives us all the facts — which far surpass any fabricated horror

23 May 2015

9:00 AM

23 May 2015

9:00 AM

Stalin Oleg Khlevniuk

Yale, pp.408, £25

‘Lately, the paradoxical turns of recent Russian history… have given my research more than scholarly relevance,’ remarks Oleg Khlevniuk in his introduction. Indeed, in Putin’s Russia Stalin’s apologists and admirers seem daily to become more vocal. The language of the 1930s is used in televised tirades against ‘internal enemies’ and ‘foreign agents’.

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